City Vitals: How Do We Measure the Success of Cities? CEOs for Cities 2011 Fall National Meeting October 11, 2011 Robert Weissbourd.
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City Vitals:
How Do We Measure
the Success of Cities?
CEOs for Cities
2011 Fall National Meeting
October 11, 2011
Robert Weissbourd
Strategic - driven by desired outcomes
Quality not Quantity - “answers, not data”
User Driven - no ‘data dumps’; no ‘map madness’
User Friendly - task and market oriented
Customized - specialized to user needs and systems
Current - up-to-date, recurring
Standardized - broad coverage and usability
Translating Research to Practice:
Determining the Right Information Resources to Drive Change
Create Effective
Public & Civic
Culture &
Institutions
Enhance
Regional
Concentrations
Deploy
Human Capital
Aligned with
Job Pools
Leverage
Points
for Sustainable
and Inclusive
Prosperity
Increase
Spatial
Efficiency
Develop
InnovationEnabling
Infrastructure
DEGREE OF OVERLAP( %)
Similar view of importance and function of
innovation; many overlapping metrics
Possible additional factors
Business Dynamics
Metrics: Churn, employment turnover
Research and Development
Metrics: Academic R&D expenditures
Heavy overlap, more exclusive emphasis on
networks/connections rather than broader
efficiency of moving people, goods, ideas
Possible additional factors:
Transit Accessibility
Jobs-Housing Mismatch
Density
Except for citizen engagement, less focus
on the institutional environment for
economic success
Possible additional factors:
Government Fragmentation
Tax-Value Proposition
Governance
Agreement on importance of human
capital; different understanding of
drivers/practice
Possible additional factors:
Alignment with Job Creation/Market
Demand
Labor Market Efficiency
Job Structure (middle skills) and
Mobility
Different view of role, and particularly cause and
effect, with respect to amenities.
Additional factors important on margins (and intrametro):
Good Housing and Safety Proposition
Retail Services
Access to Job Centers
Limited focus on the production side of the
economy (harder to reduce to metrics); some
similar top line metrics
Possible additional factors:
Productivity and GRP
Growth in Concentrated Industries and
Functions
Specializations in Emerging Knowledge
Sectors
DISCUSSION
CEOs for Cities
2011 Fall National Meeting
October 11, 2011
Robert Weissbourd
It’s not the Chicken or the Egg –
It’s the Incubator
IT’S ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY
Knowledge Workers
Active Human Capital
Knowledge
Functions
Industry
High HC
Occupation
s
Productive
Industries
To Attract Knowledge Workers, Build an
Economy Characterized by High-Human Capital
Occupations and Functions