The document discusses how cities can better reflect the needs and desires of their current and future residents. It argues that cities must focus on the human scale and keep people at the center of planning and design. Additionally, cities must address challenges like migration, talent retention, and commuting while appealing to future generations who prioritize lifestyle factors. The document outlines seven indexes that measure a city's "quality of place" and emphasizes the importance of civic engagement and lifelong learning opportunities in building vibrant communities.

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: What, Who, and How
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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 Valley 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 downtown’s
thinking and behavior...
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26. What present realities must
we face?
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28. Migration/Urban’Nation
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30. The Talent Dividend
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31. 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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32. The commuting-civic slide...
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33. 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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34. Who are our future citizens
and how can we delight them?
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35. “Deborah”
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37. 30 is the new 20
Adulthood is being pushed back.
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38. Live First, Work Second
Where I live is as important as where I work.
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39. Life online is Life
You are who Google says you are
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40. I’m skeptical.
More people under 40 believe they will see
a UFO than receive Social Security.
Tech-savvy.
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41. Millennials will be your next
great wave of in-migrants...
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42. Millennials: Digital Natives
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43. So what does all of this mean
for you?
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44. When a place
gets boring, even
the rich people
leave.
- Jane Jacobs
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45. We broke it down, so PMS
could understand it...
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46. 7 Indexes to measure “Quality
of Place”
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47. Vitality (85%)
Is our community a healthy community?
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48. Best Cities for Biking
Source: Biking Magazine April 6, 2010
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49. Earning (58%)
The quality and diversity of job and career opportunities.
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50. Around Town (56%)
How easy is it to get around - and out of - town?
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51. Social Capital (48%)
Does our community engage all people?
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52. Richard Florida
The “Creative Class” Guy
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53. The Gay Index-High Tech Connection
Source: The Rise of the Creative Class, p. 257
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54. So you’re saying that high tech
workers are more likely to be gay
than other people?
Dumb Person
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55. The engineers and computer
programmers I know are conservative.
Are you sure they’re gay?
Another Dumb Person
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56. Gays are the Canaries in the Community
Where the gays are, the geeks go
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59. After Hours (23%)
What’s there to do after work, and on weekends?
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60. Learning (17%)
Is this a “smart” community, and one that
values ongoing education?
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61. Cost of Lifestyle (4%)
Can I afford to live here? LIFESTYLE
COST OF
Can I afford to live here?
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62. What is your role?
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65. 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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66. Twitter: ngcRebecca
Email: rr@nextgenerationconsulting.com
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