U.S. Metro Areas

  • In the News

    [Rick] Snyder is one of the governors who most gets the economic importance of the city. Without Detroit, Michigan cannot recover.

    May 5, 2013, Bruce Katz, Financial Times
  • In the News

    It wasn't long ago that Las Vegas was given up as dead — another sunburned city that had become the new Detroit. It was easy to write this city off.

    April 21, 2013, Robert E. Lang, Los Angeles Times
  • In the News

    [Appointing an emergency manager to oversee Detroit's finances] is a very hard decision [Michigan's] governor had to make, it's always politically controversial to have the government intervene in this way, but it is the right decision to get Detroit back on its feet.

    March 15, 2013, Bruce Katz, msnbc.com
  • In the News

    As a nation, we've got to figure out better, more long-term ways, more sustainable ways, to fund needed transportation projects without having to rely on this annual uncertainty which seems to be the norm instead of the exception now.

    March 14, 2013, Robert Puentes, WAMU
  • In the News

    [Washington, DC's reliance on goverment is] a relatively less dangerous addiction than others. Diversification can never be sold until it’s too late. Complexity breeds resilience. It’s true in natural systems, and it’s true in economics.

    March 7, 2013, Mark Muro, Washington Post
  • In the News

    I think Detroit faces some of the toughest challenges of any American city.

    March 6, 2013, Bruce Katz, The Craig Fahle Show-WDET
  • In the News

    [Amtrak is] too often considered a big, bloated bureaucracy that depends heavily on federal subsidies and is no longer relevant to the technologically oriented metropolitan economies of today.

    March 1, 2013, Robert Puentes, CNN
  • In the News

    In order for metropolitan areas to compete, they have to be able to provide several different options for people in how they get around, for how business leaders are going to connect with other business leaders in different metropolitan areas and then how these regions are going to grow in the future. We are seeing continued congestion on the roadways, perhaps deterioration of the roadways in some cases, frustration with the airlines and looking at Amtrak as a potential alternative to some of the other modes.

    March 1, 2013, Robert Puentes, Minnesota Public Radio
  • In the News

    It’s not just waiting for government to do something [for the economy]. A lot of the actions that need to be taken in [Rhode Island] really could be taken by private, civic and university leaders. The economy is co-produced. It’s not produced by government. It’s produced by networks of leaders.

    February 27, 2013, Bruce Katz, Rhode Island Public Radio
  • In the News

    The fact that outer suburban growth has continued to falter two years after the recession ended calls into question whether today’s younger generations will hold the same residential preferences as their forebears.

    February 26, 2013, William H. Frey, The International

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