The document discusses the evolution of cities and their design to create environments that foster a sense of belonging for residents. It outlines three critical realities facing American cities: demographic changes, increased urbanization, and the impact of traffic on civic engagement. The emphasis is on human-centered design and accommodating the needs of millennials as future citizens and contributors to urban development.

1. Cities 3.0: Reflecting, Responding &
Redesigning for the Future
Rebecca Ryan
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3. Things that aren’t in my bio...
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8. In 2006...I built a house.
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10. What do you want to be homesick for?
My dogs.
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11. Joey Zach
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12. Human Centered Design...
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13. Statistically Delicious to
Awesome Experience
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14. How can we design cities and
regions that work, and places
for which people get homesick?
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15. Cities 3.0: Past, Present, and
Future
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16. What are cities for?
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17. Cities are for people...
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18. The Scale of the Corridor Human Scale
45-70 MPH 2-15 MPH
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25. So, we have to keep people
- the human scale - at the
heart of economic
development thinking and
behavior...
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26. What present realities must
we face?
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28. Reality 1: The Great Unraveling
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29. Around the year 2005, a sudden spark
will catalyze a Crisis mood. Remnants
of the old social order will
disintegrate. Political and economic
trust will implode. Real hardship will
beset the land, with severe distress
that could involve questions of class,
race, nation and empire.
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30. 1st Turning: “High”
Era of promise, belonging
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31. 2nd Turning: “Awakening”
Era of euphoria, defiance
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32. 3rd Turning: “Unraveling”
Era of separation, anxiety
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33. 4th Turning: “Crisis”
Era of survival, gathering
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34. Reality 2: The Graying and the
Browning of America
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35. Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for
83 percent of our population growth this
last decade. We are well on the way to
becoming a majority-minority society.
Bruce Katz
The Brookings Institution
“An Impending National Transformation”
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38. In Wisconsin
Source: Wisconsin Population 2035, WI Dept of Administration
http://www.doa.state.wi.us/docview.asp?locid=9&docid=2108
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39. Reality 3: Greater Urbanization
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41. In Wisconsin
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42. Commuting Crisis
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43. For every ten minutes a person spends in
traffic, their civic participation decreases
ten percent.
Dr. Robert Putnam
Author, Bowling Alone
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44. The Talent Dividend
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45. The Talent Dividend
For every 1% increase in the number of
residents who hold bachelors degrees...
There is a $763 increase in annual regional
per capita income.
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46. Fifty-eight percent of a city’s success, as
measured by per capita income, can be
attributed to post-secondary degree
attainment.
CEOs for Cities
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47. Who are our future citizens
and how can we delight them?
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48. “Deborah”
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50. 30 is the new 20
Adulthood is being pushed back.
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51. Live First, Work Second
Where I live is as important as where I work.
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52. Life online is Life
You are who Google says you are
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53. I’m skeptical.
More people under 40 believe they will see
a UFO than receive Social Security.
Tech-savvy.
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54. Millennials will be your next
great wave of in-migrants...
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55. Millennials: Digital Natives
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56. So what does all of this mean
for you?
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57. When a place
gets boring, even
the rich people
leave.
- Jane Jacobs
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58. Build a dam.
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59. Get in the flow.
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60. It is a wonderful thing to be part of a place
that is becoming, rather than a place that
has been.
Kip Hodges
ASU School of Earth & Space Exploration
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61. Twitter: ngcRebecca
Email: rr@nextgenerationconsulting.com
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