The Cultural Alliance is delighted to present Carol Coletta, President of CEOs for Cities, a national cross-sector network of urban leaders dedicated to building and sustaining the next generation of great American cities.  Carol will be joined by the Mt Auburn Associate consultant for the Milwaukee Regional Creative Economy Project, Michael Kane.

Carol is a highly sought after speaker on the success formula for cities and creative communities. In 2008 she was named one of the 50 most important urban experts by a leading European think tank and recently was named the recipient of the Lambda Alpha International 2009 International Journalism Award for her work with CEOs for Cities. For more information on Carol and her work, please go to CEOS for Cities. Here’s a connection to Carol’s excellent monograph, “Fostering the Creative City“.

Michael Kane, principal of Mt Auburn Associates, has been a practitioner as well as a researcher in the community and economic development field for more than 25 years. He specializes in regional creative economies, economic development planning, and sector analysis and organizing. Starting in 1999, Mt. Auburn has been the economic development leader in understanding and planning the creative economy. In fact, their first study was prior to Richard Florida publishing ‘Rise of the Creative Class’ and this study helped influence Florida’s work.

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MATC (corner of 6th and State Streets)
Main Campus Building
Milwaukee Conference Center Room M605

With the strong possibility that Milwaukee will be seeing streetcar service return to our streets in the coming years, we thought we should show some example systems from cities around the world.

Portland

Portland has led the way with transit infrastructure in the U.S.  For example, it was the first U.S. city to bring modern streetcars to it’s streets.

Seattle

The 2.6 mile Seattle South Lake Union Streetcar line started service in December 2007, and exceeded its first year ridership estimates three months ahead of schedule.

Vancouver

Vancouver is currently running these Bombardier Flexity streetcars as a demonstration project.

Melbourne

Reportedly, the largest tram network in the world, consisting of 152 miles of track, at least 500 trams, 28 routes, and 1,800 transit stops.

Amsterdam

Amsterdam runs a variety of trams including the 100% low-floor Siemens Combino trams.

Prague

This isn’t the everyday service in Prague, but it sure looks like a fun way to ride the streetcar.

These are just a handful of the numerous systems operating around the world, hopefully soon Milwaukee will be added to this list.

The Community and Economic Development Committee hears matters relating to community development, block grants, job development, business improvement districts, city public relations, industrial land banks and revenue bonds, emerging business enterprises, recreation, cultural arts and the library system.

The Community and Economic Development Committee meetings start at 9:00 a.m. and are held in the Room 301-B, City Hall, unless otherwise noted.

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