Best-Run Cities: Urban Matters

Today’s buzz: The city. More than just your snail-mail address, the city is a vital entity with the power to impact local quality of life as well as national and global economies. How’s your city running? The experts speak. Dr. Theresa Pardo: “Running a city is a complex and challenging task. Running it well, even more so. The best run cities ... embrace the complexity of the task, see the opportunities that information and technology offer in managing that complexity, and seek out innovative yet practical solutions to the problems their citizens care about.” Chris Moore: “Government technology is not for the faint of heart. Adie Tomer: “If knowledge is the key then just show me the lock.” - Q-Tip, A Tribe Called Quest, Check the Rhime Sean Patrick O’Brien: “The 19th century was a century of empires. The 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.” - Wellington E. Webb, Former Denver Mayor Join us for Best-Run Cities: Urban Matters.