Carol Coletta: Designing for Cities

Designing for Cities
Carol Coletta, President and CEO, CEOs for Cities
Cities are resurgent for the first time in 50 years, thanks to the preferences of the young and restless for urban living, smart mayors who have improved quality of life indicators in their cities, new housing choices, and high gas prices.

With markets moving in the direction of cities, what do urban leaders have to worry about now? And how can designers contribute to the creation of smart cities with even more market appeal?

Carol Coletta, president and CEO of CEOs for Cities and host of the nationally syndicated public radio show, “Smart City,” will share the latest research on market trends at work in cities and how designers can make an important contribution to the success of cities.

We’ll talk in depth about two of the organization’s latest design research projects, Kids in Cities and Home. We’ll also take a look at a range of design solutions for urban challenges. Come prepared to participate in workshop style for a portion of the session.

Carol Coletta of CEO's For Cities, ModelD Speaker Series

Carol Coletta is president and CEO of CEOs for Cities and host and producer of the nationally syndicated public radio show Smart City (www.smartcityradio.com). Previously, she served as president of Coletta & Company in Memphis. In addition, she served as executive director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, a partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Conference of Mayors, and American Architectural Foundation.

Carol was a Knight Fellow in Community Building for 2003 at the University of Miami School of Architecture, and is currently a candidate for a Master of Design Methods at the Institute of Design at IIT. She is frequently interviewed as an expert on urban issues by national media and is an active speaker on the success formula for cities and creative communities. This year she was named one of the world’s 50 most important urban experts by a leading European think tank.

CEOs for Cities

CEOs for Cities is a national network of urban leaders dedicated to creating next-generation cities that hold the answers to many of the challenges our nation faces. CEOs for Cities works with its cross-sector members to develop cities that excel in talent, connections, innovation and distinctiveness, and are therefore able to best address the challenges of the day.

CEOs for Cities:

• Connects urban leaders to powerful ideas and each other
• Mobilizes new urban activists to execute real change in cities
• Produces new urban insights that lay out the best opportunities for cities, and the people who live in them, to succeed
• Tells powerful stories about the potential of cities to solve our most pressing problems
  

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