Running Cities Like a Business

A recent article on Environmental Leader, “Sustainability Planning Lessons from New York and Mayor Bloomberg,” discusses New York City Mayor Bloomberg’s approach to increasing sustainability practices in New York through the program PlaNYC.

PlaNYC was launched 3 years ago on Earth Day as a plan to deal with the challenges of the growth of the city over the next 25 years.  It sought to find a solution to the difficult problem of creating housing for the projected one million more inhabitants, and worked to make housing more affordable throughout the city.  Environmentally, the plan set the goal of having the cleanest air of any major city, and reducing the greenhouse gas emissions by 30%.  It also focused on finding ways to improve the aging infrastructure of the city.

PlaNYC has been successful - in 2009 it was reported that 2/3 of initiatives of the plan were on track to be completed on schedule.  The article credits this success in large part to Mayor Bloomberg’s execution of the plan, which used several key business principles as the basis of the approach.  Read the article to learn more about this project and Mayor Bloomberg’s method of running the city like a business.

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