Future Cities Joins in Meeting of the Minds/Living Cities Group Blogging Event

May 19, 2014

NEW YORK, May 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday, May 12, Meeting of the Minds/Living Cities asked the question, "How Could Cities Better Connect All Their Residents to Economic Opportunity?" Civic and business leaders responded with a series of far-sighted blogs about everything from fair housing and urban mobility to entrepreneurism and jobs. Bloggers included Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International; Ken Thompson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and thought leaders from corporations, nonprofits, and city governments.

Kim Davis, Editor-in-Chief of Future Cities, was proud to be included on the blog roll. You can read Kim's blog, "Cities & Poverty: Connecting the Dots," here: http://www.ubmfuturecities.com/author.asp?section_id=391&doc_id=526709.

Meeting of the Minds (http://cityminded.org) is the premier international leadership conference for sustainable cities. Sponsors include Cisco, IBM, and Toyota. Living Cities (http://www.livingcities.org) harnesses the collective power of philanthropy and financial institutions to improve the lives of low-income people and the cities where they live.

UBM's Future Cities (http://www.ubmfuturecities.com) is published by UBM Tech, which specializes in building and operating highly engaged communities of qualified users within specialist B2B markets using a strategy of best-practices focused on content.

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kim.davis@ubm.com

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