How do cities keep cultures of the past alive, vibrant, and relevant while ensuring resources are available to nurture and support the emergence and growth of new city culture? How do artists use art, theater, and music to provoke a new dialogue about div ...
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The Chicago Council on Global Affairs provides policy guidance and public education on the big global challenges. This includes a growing portfolio of work on the relationship between primary resource stability and human wellbeing. Among the primary env ...
As nationalist and globalist movements clash across the world, the global cities that thrive on international connections have an opportunity to play a greater leadership role on the global stage. At the 2017 Chicago Forum on Global Cities, June 7-9, lead ...
What policy priorities are needed for global cities to drive more sustainable and inclusive prosperity? How does today’s technology revolution affect how cities build a strong, enduring, middle class? How are cities providing access to the skills and trai ...
With over 65 million refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people worldwide, and little over 105,000 of UN-assessed refugees resettled annually, what can global cities to do to help solve this crisis? What can be learned from the different ex ...
In 2013, the City of Chicago passed the Chicago Energy Benchmarking Ordinance to raise awareness of building energy performance through information and transparency, with the goal of unlocking energy and cost savings opportunities. The ordinance requires ...
Global cities are hubs of the urbanizing world and increasingly influential players on the world stage. Their banks and markets finance the global economy, and their corporations shape that economy. Their universities both imagine the future and train the ...
Chicago’s civic, educational, business and cultural leaders need to work together at home and abroad not only to enhance their own international interests but those of the city itself, according to a new report by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “C ...
