Deep Driver: Quality of Place
With its 2009 Competitive City Report, the Greater Louisville Project introduced an expanded array of measures captures multiple dimensions of Quality of Place as the third Deep Driver, while holding onto the value that ensuring balanced growth across the region is the key to urban vitality and the cornerstone for preserving the sense of place that distinguishes Louisville and its region.
The high-value, innovation economy Louisville hopes to nurture thrives best in a vibrant city that combines the intensity of urban life with the networks of people, resources, and amenities desired by the most highly educated and creative workers.
Protecting the distinctive sense of place that distinguishes Louisville as the strong hub of a growing region is key to that agenda. While it remains the dominant hub of the regional job base, Louisville Metro’s share of population in the 13-county Metropolitan Statistical Area has notched steadily downward each year over this decade.
Some other dimensions of quality of place are more intangible, but an array of social, environmental and infrastructure indicators sketch a profile of Louisville that reveals some unexpected strengths.
Deep Driver: Quality of Place
With its 2009 Competitive City Report, the Greater Louisville Project introduced an expanded array of measures captures multiple dimensions of Quality of Place as the third Deep Driver, while holding onto the value that ensuring balanced growth across the region is the key to urban vitality and the cornerstone for preserving the sense of place that distinguishes Louisville and its region.
The high-value, innovation economy Louisville hopes to nurture thrives best in a vibrant city that combines the intensity of urban life with the networks of people, resources, and amenities desired by the most highly educated and creative workers.
Protecting the distinctive sense of place that distinguishes Louisville as the strong hub of a growing region is key to that agenda. While it remains the dominant hub of the regional job base, Louisville Metro’s share of population in the 13-county Metropolitan Statistical Area has notched steadily downward each year over this decade.
Some other dimensions of quality of place are more intangible, but an array of social, environmental and infrastructure indicators sketch a profile of Louisville that reveals some unexpected strengths.