Author: Steve Lockwood

Stop the Demolitions, or If All You Have is a Bulldozer, Every House Looks Like a Pile of Sticks

Posted by Steve Lockwood | Mar 10, 2015 | City of Memphis Government, Neighborhoods, Poverty

We are grateful to Steve Lockwood, executive director of the 15-year-old Frayser Community Development Corporation, for this post. He has led the CDC’s work in this historic neighborhood annexed by Memphis in 1958 for about a...

Steve Lockwood: Our Problem Is The Opposite of Gentrification

Posted by Steve Lockwood | Mar 6, 2015 | Neighborhoods, Poverty

This post was written by Steve Lockwood, executive director of the 15-year-old Frayser Community Development Corporation. He has led the CDC’s work in this historic...

Lessons in the Wake of the Buehler Controversy

Posted by Steve Lockwood | Feb 8, 2010

It has been a couple of months since the Shelby County Commission finally voted to give 140 vacant lots to Harold Buehler/Buehler Enterprises. This vote at least mercifully put an end to a debate that was both grueling and ugly....

by Bill Day. Memphian Bill Day is two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. Cartoons Archive →

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Since 2005, this has been Smart City Consulting’s blog with the aim of connecting the dots and providing perspective on issues and policies shaping Memphis. Editor and primary author is Tom Jones, columnist, author of two books, and consultant on public policy. Smart City Memphis was called one of the most intriguing blogs in the U.S. by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change; The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal wrote that “Smart City Memphis provides some of the most well-thought-out thinking about Memphis’ past, present, and future you’ll find anywhere,” and the Memphis Flyer said: “This incredibly well-written blog sets out to solves the city’s ills – from the mayor to MATA – with out-of-the-box thinking, fresh approaches to old problems, and new ideas. If you have questions, submissions, or ideas for posts, please email Tom Jones, at tjones@smartcityconsulting.com.