Chattanooga

How to Unlock America's Bottom-Up Innovation

Thomas Friedman uses Chattanooga, Tenn. as an example of the "innovative thrust building, bottom-up, in the U.S. economy today." In an opinion piece for the Times, he urges leaders in Washington to help unlock America's embryonic growth surge.

November 27, 2012 - Jonathan Nettler

Should Your City Build Its Own Broadband Network?

April 30, 2012 - Christopher Mitchell

The Hipster States of America

Writing from Austin, Texas, one of the current centers for hipster culture in the U.S., Lauren Modery proposes a list of the next cities she believes are ripe for an explosion of old-timey facial hair, geeky eyewear, and overall hipsterfication.

February 23, 2012 - CultureMap Austin

Revilatization Through Graphic Design

Zak Stone reports on a campaign in Chattanooga, Tennessee to distill the city's artistic and entrepreneurial spirit into a font, and asks the question - can a font help a city make a comeback?

February 18, 2012 - Good

Property Rights, Growth Boundaries Issues at Long-Range Planning Meeting

Locals expressed fear and resistance over a revision to Chattanooga, Tennessee's urban growth plan.

November 20, 2011 - Chatanooga Times Free Press

Chattanooga, Tennessee: America's Favorite Town

At least, the favorite town of Outside Magazine's readership, in a survey of almost 22,000 readers. Outside says the factors that make Chattanooga hot range from "epic singletrack to progressive city planning."

September 13, 2011 - Outside Magazine

Fast Web and Local Food Key to Chattanooga's Revival

Through a combination of local food initiatives and the installation of a new high-speed fiber optic network, the city of Chattanooga is hoping to continue its trend of recovering from years of industrial decline.

July 11, 2011 - Citiwire

FREE Course: Walkable City 1: Why Walkability?

After describing his path towards focusing on walkability as the essence of good planning, Jeff Speck marches through his five principal reasons for making more walkable places.

Reinventing Malls: Planning Alchemy—Turning Gray Fields Into Gold

The course focuses on the opportunities and imperatives that shape reinvention of mall sites.

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City of Thousand Oaks

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City of Wisconsin Rapids

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Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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