How Great Communities
Make Good Decisions ::::

Welcome to the Civic Strategies web site. Civic Strategies is a firm that helps communities make important decisions. You can learn here about our work and how it can benefit your community. There's also an extensive collection of articles and presentations that can deepen your civic leadership skills.

Our web site has five sections: 

  • About Civic Strategies explains our firm's history and approach to community decision making and tells you about our principal employees.
  • Civic Strategies Services explains the most important services we provide and the benefits they bring.
  • The Online Library has numerous articles and presentations about cities, regions and civic leadership.
  • Resources is our "how-to" section for civic leaders, a good place to visit to deepen your leadership skills.
  • News from Civic Strategies has articles about our firm and its work.

Please feel free to browse.  This web's materials are copyrighted, but you are free to download anything you find here for personal use. 

Contact Civic Strategies ::::

For information about our firm and its services, please fill out our information request form or call us at 404-873-5343.

Follow us on Twitter. You can find Otis White's urban issues updates by searching for @OtisWhite. And you can find Otis' essays on leadership at otiswhite.com.

 


Seven Big Lessons for
Local Governments ::::

In 2002, we began a five-year partnership with Governing magazine to publish a column about cities and regions called Urban Notebook. As a parting gift for Governing readers, we published "Seven Big Lessons for Local Governments," which looked back on the major themes of Urban Notebook. To view this article, please click here.

 


The New City Upon a Hill ::::

This is a great moment in the history of cities. But to take full advantage, city leaders must act on their greatest assets. In this essay for the Georgia Municipal Association, Civic Strategies President Otis White explains what cities' assets are and how leaders can build on them. There's also an audio version of the essay.