Resources

Maker City: A practical guide to reinventing our cities

Below you’ll find resources that we mentioned in each chapter plus additional resources that we felt could be of help in building out or strengthening the Maker City.

Chapter 1: Introduction

To assess the competitive standing of your city:

• City Alliances: to assess the competitive standing of the city: Strategic Frameworks
• Kauffman Foundation: to better understand entrepreneurial cities and their Unique Value Propositions
• Kauffman Foundation: Data on startups and entrepreneurship that can help you understand where you city sits in a competitive context

Chapter 2: The Maker movement and Cities

To delve more deeply into Maker dynamics in cities:

• Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution Press: The Metropolitan Revolution
• James Fallows, The Atlantic: Eleven Signs a City Will Succeed
• Mickey McManus, Maya Design: Maker Swarm Aims to Open the Internet of Everything to Everyone
• National League of Cities, Center for City Solutions & Applied Research How Cities Can Grow the Maker movement

Chapter 3: Ecosystems

To better understand or define your local Maker Ecosystem:

• Maker Maps
• Survey Template for local Maker community (survey template is last two pages of this report)
• A view of performing ecosystems

Additional resources:

• Kauffman Foundation: Measuring an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
• Kauffman Foundation: Enabling Entrepreurial Ecosystem
• Kauffman Foundation: How to Cook Up a Vibrant Ecosystem
• Deloitte Consulting: Center for the Edge Innovation

Maker Survey Reports:

• Portland Made: 2014 Maker Study
• Portland Made: 2015 Maker Study

Chapter 4: Education

• Remake Learning: To dig deeper into the theory and practice of building learning innovation networks: The Remake Learning Playbook
• Carnegie Mellon University: To find out more about the state of Making in schools: Make Schools Higher Education Alliance State of Making Report
• Sonoma County School District: To learn about one school district’s success in integrating the Maker movement in its schools: Sonoma County
• Aspen Institute: To read about learning in a networked world: Learner at the Center of a Networked World
• LRNG: Using the city as a classroom with the support of playlists: LRNG Partner Handbook

Chapter 5: Workforce and Economic Development

• Center for an Urban Future: Launching Low Income Entrepreneurs (2013)
• Freelance Union Study: Freelancing in America Report (2014)
• Etsy Study: New Face of Creative Entrepreneurship (2015)
• Urban League: American’s Forgotten Middle Skill Jobs (2007)
• Brookings Institute: The Future of Middle Skill Jobs (2009)
• Harvard Business Review: Employers aren’t just whining. The skills gap is real (2014)
• Brookings: Framework for Economic Development
• CCST: Promoting Engaging with Promoting Engagement of the California Community Colleges with the Maker Movement

Chapter 6: Advanced Manufacturing

• Bay Area Council: Reinventing Manufacturing
• Deloitte Press: Future of Manufacturing
• Deloitte Consulting: Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Report
• Brookings: Urban Manufacturing Media Memo
• Brookings: The smartest places on Earth: Why rustbelts are the emerging hotspots of global innovation
• Harvard Business School Review: Clusters and the New Economics of Competition
• Wall Street Journal: On the explosion of new products thanks to Makers
• Brookings: The Rise of Innovation Districts (2016)

Manufacturing as a Service:

• Fictiv
• Plethora
• Dragon Innovation 

Crowdfunding:

• Fundable
• Indiegogo
• Kickstarter

Urban Manufacturing:

• Urban Manufacturers Alliance

Hardware Accelerators

• AlphaLab Gear
• Lemnos Labs
• PCH Highway1
• Playground

Other:

• Arduino

Chapter 7: Real Estate

• Brookings Institute: To learn more about innovation districts: Innovation Districts
• Pratt Center for Community Development: For a toolkit on how to create stable and affordable space for urban manufacturing and Makers: Nonprofit Real Estate Development Toolkit

Chapter 8: Civic Engagement

• To dig deeper into the need for collaboration: Collaboration for Impact
• City of San Francisco: To see how San Francisco approaches their parklet projects: Pavement to Parks

Chapter 9: Conclusion

To download the Institute for the Future Open Cities map:
Open Cities Map

For more views of the future:

• American Futures: Future Ready Economies (NYT)
• Dell: Future Ready Economies
• Dell: Ranking Future Ready Cities

Infographics

• Maker movement (2016)
• Makerspaces (2015)
• What is the Hardware Revolution (2013)
• Hardware Trends (2013)

Other Resources of Interest

Here are a few definitive studies about the Maker movement and Maker Cities:

• Deloitte University Press: A Movement in the Making
• Deloitte: The Maker movement (multiple articles and videos)
• Deloitte: The Impact of the Maker movement
• The Kauffman Foundation: Snapshot of the Emerging Entrepreneur 
• The Kauffman Foundation: Guidelines for Local and State Government to Promote Entrepreneurship
• The Kauffman Foundation: Maker Mayors Action Report
• Atlantic Magazine: articles by James Fallows on the renewal of U.S. cities and the Maker movement