Ekundayo Bandele, founder and executive director of Hattiloo Theatre in Memphis, talks about how to build a black creative class and build a city brand.

Mark Wallace, president and CEO, Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, talks about the power of waterfronts to bring cities together.

The Atlanta City Design aspires to live into the “beloved community.”  One of its authors, Ryan Gravel, is an entrepreneur working on ideas about the future of cities. His master’s thesis two decades described the original vision for the Atlanta Beltline

On this episode of Cities Now Carol Coletta takes a deep dive with Terez Wilson, Victoria Young, Sidney Johnson and Jamal Boddie

These four successful urban professionals call Memphis home.  They are young, African-Americans in a city that is predominantly African-American.  And in America today, that brings challenges, but also opportunity, and our guests talk about both in this frank discussion.

Henry Turley, CEO of the Henry Turley Company in Memphis and co-developer of the Uptown neighborhood

Tanja Mitchell, the original Uptown neighborhood coordinator and now director of community engagement with The Works

Joe Cortright, who blogs at cityobservatory.org and is President and principal economists of Impresa, a consulting firm

Its developers set out to create a great neighborhood in Memphis for people with low incomes. Why has Uptown succeeded and what can other communities learn?

Andre Perry, Fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings and scholar-in-residence at American University

Joe Cortright, who blogs at cityobservatory.org and is President and principal economist of Impresa, a consulting firm specializing in regional economic analysis, innovation and industry clusters

Brookings Fellow Andre Perry has found significant disparity between real estate values in predominantly black neighborhoods compared to predominantly white neighborhoods in the U.S.

Exploring cities, their leadership, their influential stakeholders. Hosted by Carol Coletta, the president and CEO of the Memphis River Parks Partnership.