Like every college town, Austin likes smart growth, mass transit and high density.
The role of the new business director, and the importance of a smart growth strategy, will be indispensable.
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He is also the author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth.
Reading Small Giants helped me frame what sustainable and smart growth looks like.
Mr. DAVID GOLDBERG (Smart Growth America): This is probably one of the largest and most ambitious redevelopment efforts in the country at the moment.
Its main city, Portland, became the poster child of the "smart growth" movement by forcing up density, building an extensive light-rail system and restoring its urban core.
And things will only get worse in the coming years as Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and his green cadre implement their "smart growth" plans to cram the proletariat into high-density housing.
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Ed Hess is professor of business administration and Batten executive-in-residence at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business and is the author of Smart Growth (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2010).
Greens and "smart growth" advocates will celebrate if money is diverted from hard infrastructure--such as improved roads, bridges, ports and transmission lines--which they insist would create enough carbon to heat the planet like a toaster.
Metropolitan Portland has gained an international reputation as a model of smart growth, so Bragdon's schedule now regularly includes meeting with visiting urbanists from throughout the world who want to learn from the region's example.
Boosting the group of late: smart phone growth, an extension on dividend tax rates and a compromise on net neutraility.
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Just one-third of those surveyed who live in the typical suburban setting said they would prefer to live in a "smart-growth" environment.
Romney and Foy wasted little time in putting smart-growth policies to work.
Then Apple focused on additional new markets, transforming smart phone growth with the iPhone and altering the direction of computing with the iPad.
With Palm, Elevation is banking on global growth of smart phones and enough of a Palm turnaround to ride this growth.
Moreover, rise, and the way Mahindra thinks about it, gives the company permission to innovate, which is a tremendously smart strategy for growth.
"There is no evidence whatsoever to suggest protection of the environment is a barrier to economic growth, but plenty to suggest smart regulation is actually a stimulus to growth, " he said.
The growth in smart devices means that a flood of data will be unleashed.
All in all, CafePress has made smart moves and its growth has been well-thought-out.
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Chen said that the growth of smart phones will also increase the user base going forward.
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Growth in smart phones has also been stymied by a lack of appropriate handsets and technologies, McKenzie said.
But both companies are leading in mindshare and in market share and benefitting from this growth in Smart Devices.
While telcos have billions of customers and strong brands, those strengths are offset by the growth of smart phones, tablets and digital services.
The explosive growth of smart mobile devices, combined with richness of services available to end users, is causing an increase in content generation and consumption.
In 2009, iPhone sales globally rose 83% to 25.1 million, far outpacing the 20% to 25% growth in smart phones sales overall, according to Bernstein.
The report also examines the growth of smart TV in different regions and reveals that there are several emerging markets where fixed broadband appears to be leapfrogged by consumers.
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