What Cities Can Do: Revitalizing Denver's Downtown
At the heart of every city is a downtown, a hub that determines the city's success or failure. Much of the momentum for our economic turnaround in Denver originated in our strategy for downtown.One of...
View ArticleCharting a Course for Downtown Living: Denver
In this presentation to the Downtown Denver Partnership, Alan Berube examines demographic trends in downtowns, compares Downtown Denver to its West Coast peers, and explores future opportunities for...
View ArticleWhat the Delegates Can Learn From Denver
What will delegates take away from the Denver conventions? T-shirts, buttons, business cards, policy papers, and the memory of Barack Obama’s history-making acceptance speech, of course. But the...
View ArticlePainting the Mountain States Blue
Hopeful Democrats will not just be showcasing their candidates and purveying a spectacle of unity as they gather in Denver today for their convention. Equally important, they will be planting their...
View ArticleWestern Perspective: Mountain Megas
The Intermountain West—once the Great Empty—is where it's at this fall. The states, especially in the region's southern half —Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah—suddenly lie smack in the...
View ArticleArizona Needs to get in the Federal Game
For several years, we and others at Arizona State University have been describing the rise of the Sun Corridor - the vast swath of urban space that sweeps from Prescott through Phoenix and Pinal...
View ArticlePikes Peak as “Megapolitan” Space: A Federal Agenda for Prosperity in the...
Each year Colorado College holds the State of the Rockies Symposium to release an impressive report card grading the Intermountain West region on a variety of attributes. This year the event focused...
View ArticleLeveraging the Mountain West Innovation Complex for Energy System Transformation
Over and over America has looked to the West to work out the future. In this thinly populated terrain, experiments could still be attempted and national agendas advanced more swiftly than in the...
View ArticleState Budgets' Unsound Structures
There’s been a lot of talk about state budget woes across the country as impacted by the Great Recession. However, beneath these cyclical declines in revenues are some far more daunting issues that...
View ArticleAdvancing the Clean Economy: The View from Colorado
As the governor of Colorado from 2007 to 2011, Bill Ritter led the nation in arguing for the economic development value of “decarbonizing” the U.S. energy system. Moreover, he showed how to advance...
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