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  Paul Sizemore 3:36 pm on January 9, 2012 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: DC, Fun ( 10 ), Innovation ( 2 ), Louisville, Paul Sizemore ( 6 ), personal ( 3 )   

  An Industrial Core to Next Frontier City 

  In May 2010, Brookings Institute released their new report, the State of Metropolitan America, and it induced a new classification of US cities. The new study deemphasizes location, and heightens the importance of current levels on key categories. 

   

  Those categories are:

  • population growth rates

  • racial and ethnic diversity

  • rate of obtaining college degrees 

   

  By measuring those key factors, along with other research into the city, they have classified the cities.

   

  I have lived in Louisville for many years, and am currently moving to DC. There is a stark difference between the cities, and it’s underscored by the Brookings study.

   

  Washington DC: The only city east of the Mississippi that is a ‘Next Frontier’ city. Labeled as such because of the hight education attainment, high diversity, and new economic channels.

   

  Louisville: Labeled as an ‘Industrial Core’ city, due to it’s low population growth, low diversity, low educational attainment, and key economics.

   

  

  Source: http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2010/0511_metro_typology_berube.aspx
   

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  Paul Sizemore 3:08 pm on January 9, 2012 Permalink | Reply
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  Increasing Innovation by Increasing the Pace 

  I’ve lived in Louisville off and on for decades, and there has always been a sense of pride over the pace of life in Louisville. Louisville is a slower city, and allows the cultivation of the aspects of life not allowed to flourish in other cities. I’ve explained it as low-gravity city. You can go there and have extraordinary skills and talents, but the longer you stay, the more atrophied those skills become.

  Many of us Louisville residents have heard the famous Louisville quote from Mark Twain:

   

  “When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.” – Mark Twain

   

  Louisville is a great place to perfect the perfect bourbon cherry lemonade recipe, spend time with family, sit on your porch during a hot sumer day, or or anything else that benefits from a slower pace of life. 

   

  As a result of the slower pace, less stress, there are stronger connections. Robert V. Levine did some research, and determined that a city’s pace of life was directly proportional to the ‘helpfulness’ of that city. So, he devised a series of experiments where he measured how many residents would help during routine accidents (like dropping papers while on the street). The complete study can be found at http://www.geser.net/gesleh/hs07hel/Levine.pdf

   

  Out of 36 cities, he determined that Louisville was the sixth most helpful city, behind Rochester, NY, Houston, TX, Nashville, TN, and Memphis, TN.

   

  Taking this information, and jumping to the conclusions from Geoffry West, a theoretical physicist that turned his interests and energy to defining cities, it can be determined that Louisville is lacing in one of the key components of Innovation, that of pace.

   

  Geoffry West has determined that there are three main components to Innovation within a city, diversity, density and pace. An overview can be found in a NYTimes article at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.html?pagewanted=all

   

  How can there be an increase in innovation in Louisville? They could build systems to artificially increase the pace of the city.

  

   
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  Paul Sizemore 9:48 pm on August 7, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 48HFP, Louisville, Louisville 48 Hour Film, Louisville Film, Shawn Coots   

  Shawn Coots of the team Anti-Villian before the 48HFP 

  Yesterday was the kick-off for the Louisville 48 Hour Film Project, and while there, I interviewed a few of the film makers. Swan Coots of team Anti-Villian summed up the weekend, and as I interview others, and asked them the same questions, the workflow for all seem close to the same:

  Kick-off, write, alcohol, write, sleep, coffee, film, alcohol, sleep, coffee, edit.

  Shawn Coots of the team Anti-Villian before the 48HFP from Paul Sizemore on Vimeo.

   
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  Paul Sizemore 1:44 pm on June 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Louisville, Management ( 13 ), Product Management ( 12 )   

  A visit to ‘WorkShop: the creative work place’ 

  In an effort to find creative workspace for the remote creative knowledge worker in Louisville, KY, I stopped by to see Stephanie Ringer at the WorkShop on 1205 East Washington Street, Louisville, KY. In addition to being near Blind Pig, the space is full of creativity and energy. 

  It’s the best local space I’ve seen for ideation and product development. It’s full of painted white boards, markers, flip charts, post its, index cards, tape – everything you need for creative business play. 

  The only thing that I think it’s missing is an arsenal of nerf guns. 

   

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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    Kara 3:56 am on March 1, 2011 Permalink | Reply

    I’ve been there!

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  Paul Sizemore 9:01 pm on March 29, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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  Relic plays Monkey Wrench 

  Relic has a standing engagement on Wednesday at the Monkey Wrench. This recording was made March 24, 2010.

  

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