Sunday, September 26, 2010

Running a city is not like running a business

On the Ottawa Citizen's website, David Reevely touches on a topic, that is, running a city like a business, that came up early in the thesis that Kate Murray, Chidi Ogbuagu and I did last year (here's the version of the resource guide with working hyperlinks). We were trying to create a business case for sustainability for cities. Cities aren't businesses, and the motivations that drive cities are different - they need to build more than just economic capital. That's why we instead did a report on how building community capital (including economic, built, natural, social, cultural, human and political) to move towards sustainability.

The comments on this posting are also pretty intelligent!

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