I'm at the Intelligent Communities Forum
conference in New York City.
Lots of discussion here about how communities
can survive and prosper in the 21st century information economy.
I found a great quote attributed to Robert Solow, economist:
"Over the long term, places with strong, distinctive identities are more likely to prosper than places without them. Every place must identify its strongest most distinctive features and develop them or run the risk of being all things to all persons and nothing special to any...Livability is not a middle-class luxury. It is an economic imperative."
Source is the Wikipedia article on Solow, with quotes at bottom of article
Posted by Jay Gillette at May 14, 2009 04:45 PM