Tag: jobs

Take These Jobs and…
(You know the rest)

Ben Brown
Ben Brown August 8, 2015
Cheerleaders for American business used to get peeved when cynics contorted a quote by General Motors CEO Charles Erwin Wilson in 1953. The popular, misinterpreted version: “What’s good for General Motors is good for the country.” What Wilson actually said: “I thought what was good for our country was good for... Continue Reading
Category Community Development, Demographics, Economic Development, Planning and Design, Resilience
Tags Ben Brown, economic development, jobs
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‘Show Me the Money!’ New bumper sticker for the New Normal?

Ben Brown
Ben Brown October 10, 2011
There hasn’t been a New Urbanist Council gathering for a while. Which is why a lot of pent-up anxiety -- and hope -- found release in Council sessions in Montgomery, Alabama, October 14-16. These regionally organized Councils are intended to grapple with topics that should be on the table for annual Congress for the... Continue Reading
Category Development, Planning and Design, Sales and Marketing
Tags Andres Duany, Ben Brown, cnu, congress for the new urbanism, economic development, jobs, John Anderson, Montgomery Alabama, new urbanism, Scott Polikov, Victor Dover
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