Yee-Howdy! On Thursday, March 10, current and emerging leaders in Corpus Christi met, and Rebecca Ryan issued some perspective on how to make Corpus a place people are proud to call "home." These are the slides. Please share and give attribution: "Copyright Next Generation Consulting, 2011, All Rights Reserved." You can also email Rebecca: rr@nextgenerationconsulting.com or follow her on Twitter: ngcRebecca

1. Cities 3.0: Reflecting, Responding &
Redesigning for the Future
Rebecca Ryan
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2. Things that aren’t in my bio...
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7. In 2006...I built a house.
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9. What do you want to be homesick for?
My dogs.
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10. Joey Zach
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11. How can we design cities and
regions that work, and places
for which people get homesick?
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12. Statistically Delicious to
Awesome Experience
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13. A presentation in Three Acts:
Past, Present, and Future
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14. What are cities for?
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15. Cities are for people...
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16. The Scale of Texas “People-Scale”
45-70 MPH 2-15 MPH
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23. So, we have to put people
back in the center of the
development process...
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24. It’s part of your job
description...
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25. Source: Wikipedia
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26. Source: International Economic Development Council (IEDC)
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27. What present realities must
we face?
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28. Migration/Urban’Nation
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30. But not all migration creates
prosperity
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31. The Talent Dividend
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32. 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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33. What caliber of talent are we
attracting to the East Valley?
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34. Migration: Nueces County, TX Source: Forbes.com
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35. Migration: Nueces County, TX Source: Forbes.com
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36. Migration: Nueces County, TX Source: Forbes.com
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37. Migration: Nueces County, TX Source: Forbes.com
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38. In Corpus Christi
If we could increase our BA attainment from
13.1% to 14.1%...
There would be a $213,640,000 economic
dividend to your city.
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39. What does that mean?
81 Cole Park Renovations
59 New FedEx Facilities
20 Runway Extensions
17 New Elementary Schools
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40. Who are our future citizens
and how can we delight them?
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41. “Deborah”
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43. Millennials will be your next
great wave of in-migrants...
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44. Millennials & Technology
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45. Next Gen & Technology
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46. How do we create a city that
people ache for...they want to
call “home?”
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47. Assessing our “Quality of Life”
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48. Atlanta, GA Handprint, Source Next Generation Consulting, 2010
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49. Austin, TX Handprint, Source Next Generation Consulting, 2010
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50. Corpus Christi, TX Handprint, Source Next Generation Consulting, 2010
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51. So what does all of this mean
for you?
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52. Who are you
developing for?
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54. What is your legacy to the
next generation?
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55. www.nextgenerationconsulting.com/next
Twitter: ngcRebecca
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