Featured by The Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute’s Aspen Ideas Now series featured James Fallows in conversation with author and journalist Bill Bishop on the geography of personal and political belief in the pandemic era. The two covered…
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A ‘Climate Corps’ of California Volunteers
Designed to address both the causes and the effects of California's exposure to climate change.
The Sport That’s Like Playing in a Jazz Quartet
"Rowing is a sport, everything else is a game."
‘A Most Beautiful Thing’ in a Time of Racial Reckoning
This film's story would be surprising and engrossing at any time, but it has a current power and relevance its producers could not have foreseen when they began making it.
Announced as Speakers at Cities Rising Summit
Tom Tom Foundation announced James and Deborah Fallows are returning to the Cities Rising Summit for a session on Tuesday, September 29. The Summit is a six-week long series of virtual events exploring…
Featured in Irish Examiner
The Irish Examiner’s Michael Moynihan applied James and Deborah Fallows’s 11 signs of civic success to Cork in his August 20, 2020 editorial. He ends with the ‘big plans’ sign…
Fallows to be Featured at Original Thinkers 2020
The Telluride Daily Planet announced James and Deborah Fallows as featured presenters for Original Thinkers’s third annual conference scheduled for October 1 – 4, 2020.
Referenced in Akron Beacon Journal
The Akron Beacon Journal’s August 23, 2020 editorial about the University of Akron’s strategy for moving forward references Our Towns’ reference to the importance of a research university in a town’s success.…
Referenced in Bloomberg News
In his August 14, 2020 column, BNN Bloomberg’s Noah Smith discusses America’s changing urban landscape. He posits that in order to be attractive places to live, suburbs will have to…
The Artists of Lemmon, South Dakota
The role of the arts in a tiny town with its sights set high
How a Small Brewery Can Survive COVID-19
A bellwether business category, figuring out how and whether it can survive.
Referenced in Strong Towns
In his August 7, 2020 column, Quint Studer discusses six ways communities can start making changes to attract and retain talent in an increasingly virtual working environment. One method he…
Another Lesson From the Roman Empire
From Sulla to Sullen: What the Fall of the Roman Republic Tells Us About Where Trump Is Taking Us.
Michael Jones Receives Royal Honors
Awarded the 2020 Patron's Medal for his contribution to the development of geospatial information.
What happens to small companies now?
The path small, locally conscious firms are taking to survive the current economic and public health disaster.
Featured in the Irish Examiner
In his July 30, 2020 column in the Irish Examiner, Michael Moynihan describes the Sculpture Walk in Sioux Falls, South Dakota noted in Our Towns. He exhorts Cork to create a similar…