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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
With rising concern about the nation’s anemic job numbers, infrastructure has emerged as a centerpiece of a number of proposed “jobs bills.” In a Hill op-ed, Bruce Katz and Robert Puentes point out that infrastructure is not necessarily a cure-all and outline the federal leadership and strategies necessary for successful investment in the way we move goods, people and power.
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Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Bruce Katz discusses the Great Recession from the United States metropolitan perspective and sketches the shape of the next U.S. economy whose future prosperity is slowly coming into view.
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Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
At an event with Congressman John Olver in Holyoke, Mass., Bruce Katz outlined the contours and implications of a low-carbon, innovation-fueled, and export-oriented economy for our Metro Nation, and specifically older New England metros. Using the example of post-industrial European cities, he emphasized the importance of metropolitan areas having a strong federal partner to drive the next economy.
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Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
At a gathering at the University of Washington, Bruce Katz described the elements of a low-carbon, innovation-led and export-oriented economy that is coming to view in the midst of the Great Recession. While the Seattle metropolis has many of the assets necessary to take part in this next economy, it needs renewed civic collaboration, governance reform, and a partnership with the "two Washingtons," Olympia, and D.C., to achieve productive, inclusive, and sustainable growth.
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Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Bruce Katz outlines the many metropolitan assets that could form the basis for the Seattle region’s economic recovery and evolution. However, Seattle won’t get there without renewed civic collaboration, smart government action and an overarching regional vision.
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Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
At the Regional Policy Conference at the University of Minnesota, Bruce Katz discussed the importance of competitiveness, sustainable growth and metropolitan governance in the current difficult economic and fiscal environment in the state of Minnesota and across the country. These forces compel the U.S. to rethink how we grow and demand a new approach to metropolitan governance that is multi-jurisdictional, multi-dimensional, accountable and transparent.
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Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Pittsburgh's "new economy" may be the key reason for the city's star turn as host of the September 2009 G-20 summit. But Bruce Katz argues that the seemingly abstract, big-picture decisions made at the gathering have big implications for Pittsburgh’s “next economy” and for metropolitan areas across the nation.
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Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:58:55 GMT
Public housing has long been criticized as a breeding ground for concentrated poverty, under-achieving schools and for its lack of access to services. Bruce Katz says that President Obama's Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, an expansion of HOPE VI, will revitalize poor communities while enhancing opportunities for residents and the business community.
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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Before the Center for Housing Policy’s Learning Conference on State and Local Housing Policy in Chicago, IL, Bruce Katz outlined a new architecture for national housing policy for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
At a “Restoring Prosperity” gathering at Cleveland State University, Bruce Katz called upon Ohio’s leaders to take bold measures to stabilize the state’s economy by focusing on core communities—home to the assets that are key to recovery.
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Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley, in this letter to the editor of the New York Times, argue that the fundamental geographic unit of the 21st century is the metropolitan area and that new forms of governance must reflect this shift.
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Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
U.S. metropolitan areas are the under-recognized engines of America’s economy, and the nation must adjust its federal system—and American federalism—to support them so they can lead us back to prosperity, write Bruce Katz, Mark Muro, and Jennifer Bradley in a major framing essay for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.
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Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
After years of benign neglect, the nation’s crumbling infrastructure is getting its public hearing. Bruce Katz delivered a major speech during a special session of the National Governors Association Winter Meeting dedicated to infrastructure financing, accountability and sustainability. He urged the critical importance of policy reform in shifting the infrastructure conversation from one focused on spending, to one focused on investing.
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Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
American suburbs today more resemble cities than a treasured retreat from life’s tumult. Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley argue that unless we grabble with the problems and opportunities of the new suburbs, America can’t ensure its leading place in the global economy.
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Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Bruce Katz and Rob Puentes argue that President-elect Obama must connect infrastructure spending to broad national goals such as creating new jobs, training a new work force and connecting people to work.
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Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Jennifer Bradley and Bruce Katz examine the notion that America is still nation of small towns. Taking cues from Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin about her hometown of Wasilla, Bradley and Katz's metro area analysis shows that even so-called “small towns” like Wasilla are in fact part of larger metro areas, like Anchorage that contribute greatly to their state’s economy.
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Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:08:47 GMT
Ohio has the assets that matter in growing a prosperous economy, Bruce Katz explains, and that the state's ability to compete globally relies on its 32 core communities.
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Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The replacement for the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis that collapsed one year ago is nearing completion. But, argue Bruce Katz and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, the calls for reinvestment in transportation infrastructure have not been heeded. As outlined by the Metropolitan Policy Program, the federal government needs to systematically identify, map and prioritize the nation-shaping projects that require federal investment, breaking radically from our current practices. It shouldn’t take another bridge collapse to teach us.
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Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:16:50 GMT
The Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution recently launched an ambitious, multi-year initiative to promote the health and vitality of America's urban clusters. In these presentations, Bruce Katz and Rob Puentes present policy ideas for improving the federal partnership with states and cities.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Across the United States, a broad cross-section of urban practitioners—private investors and developers, government officials, community and civic leaders—are taking ambitious steps to leverage the distinctive physical assets of cities and maximize their economic, fiscal, environmental and social potential. A special class of urban interventions—what we call “transformative investments”—is emerging from the millions of transactions that occur in cities every year, write Bruce Katz and Julie Wagner in an essay for Ethos, a Singapore-based journal.
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Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Bruce Katz and his colleagues in a recent opinion piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer urge the federal government to organize their current fragmented investments in transportation and innovation and targeting them where they will provide the greatest return, metropolitan America.
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Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In Pennsylvania, the next major presidential primary state, concerns about the economy loom large. A true federal economic agenda for the Commonwealth must empower state and local innovators to leverage the core assets of the nation's economy--innovation, infrastructure, human capital and quality places--where those assets are located: Pennsylvania’s many small and large metropolitan areas.
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Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
On the cusp of Ohio's crucial primary, Bruce Katz and Alan Berube posit some key questions on the candidates’ long-term plans for the Ohio economy, which has lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs since 2000 and contains four of the nation’s top 20 metropolitan areas in home foreclosure rates.
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Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
As a participant in the Rochester Regional Community Design Center’s “Reshaping Rochester” series, Bruce Katz offered a prescription for the continued revitalization of downtown Rochester, New York and the entire Rochester metropolitan area. Arguing that at least 2 percent of Rochester residents should be encouraged to live downtown, Katz outlines five specific strategies for the creation of a healthy and vital urban core.
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Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
America’s bridges, roads, rails and web of channel communications form the connective tissue that we call infrastructure. When these underpinnings start to crumble, so does the economic competitiveness of the nation. The third Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on Competitiveness explored the challenges and opportunities for new infrastructure investment.
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Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
On November 6, 2007, Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director of Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, launched the Blueprint for American Prosperity with a presentation that highlighted the importance of metropolitan areas to the nation’s future prosperity.
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Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
At a legislative conference in Cambridge, Ohio, Bruce Katz stressed the importance of cities and metro areas to the state's overall prosperity. Acknowledging the decline of Ohio's older industrial cities, Katz noted the area's many assets and argued for a focus on innovation, human capital, infrastructure, and quality communities as means to revitalize the region.
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Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
A Brookings study of 302 cities and found Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, Mansfield, Springfield, Warren and Youngstown among 65 cities that are underperforming compared to their peers nationwide. Most of these cities—and their metropolitan areas—are struggling to make a successful transition from an economy based on routine manufacturing to one based on more knowledge-oriented activities.
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Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT
For all of Connecticut's affluence, its economic performance in recent years has been lackluster at best. According to a recent report by the Connecticut Economic Resource Center, the state has fallen far behind in job growth and entrepreneurialism,
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Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Before the City Club in Cleveland, Bruce Katz emphasized the importance of Ohio's older industrial cities for the state's overall prosperity and outlined, despite seemingly grim statistics, why now is the time for a rebirth of those places and how it can be achieved.
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Sun, 27 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
State governments must get more involved and provide more support to revitalize cities like Pittsburgh
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Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The U.S. Conference of Mayors convened in Washington just in time to hear President Bush convey a renewed interest in domestic policy. As they digest the President's priorities and the response from Congressional Democrats the nation's mayors need to
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Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Before the international Urban Age conference in Berlin, Bruce Katz argued that if cities are the organizing units of the new global order, then a broad range of policies and practices at the city, national, and supra-national levels need to be reeva
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Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation before 800 people at GrowSmart Maine's third annual summit, Bruce Katz argues that Maine must invest in what matters, the state's outstanding quality of place and most promising industrial clusters.
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Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Federal urban policy needs to reflect our changing economy and society.
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Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Nearly one year since Hurricane Katrina, Bruce Katz examines how the underlying conditions of New Orleans, especially its neighborhoods of extremely concentrated poverty, served to exacerbate the effects of the storm.
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Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation at The Council on Foundations, Bruce Katz presented the Brookings Weak Market Cities Project, its preliminary findings, and the preliminary framework for policy reform.
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Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Transformative Investments are multi-dimensional efforts that remake the urban physical landscape to stimulate economic growth, improve fiscal vitality, and advance social equity. In this presentation, Bruce Katz discusses the profound demographic, economic, social, and cultural forces reshaping the nation, how these broad forces give cities the best chance to compete in decades, and how cities are increasingly making Transformative Investments to realize their full potential.
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Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation to the Michigan State University Land Policy Program, Bruce discussed the factors driving economic growth and prosperity and what policies Michigan should pursue to move toward a brighter economic future.
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Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Before the Business-Higher Education Roundtable of the Capital Region, Bruce Katz outlined the broad economic and demographic changes currently roiling the nation and the four new rules of economic success these trends engender with specific focus on Albany, N.Y. and environs. These forces often seem abstract but they are fundamentally altering the role and relationships of cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.
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Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation, Bruce Katz discussed how American cities are increasingly carrying out transformative efforts to realize their full potential—and address the profound demographic and market changes taking place. These changes give cities their best chance to compete in decades, if they can overcome physical and social barriers.
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Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT
In this speech launching the Metropolitan Policy Program's Maine Initiative, Bruce Katz examines the broad forces reshaping the American economy, what they mean for Maine, and the yearlong scope of work that hopes to identify the path to a competitive, prosperous, and sustainable future for the state.
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Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Federal and state policies make highways easy to build and relegate transit and other alternatives to second-class status.
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Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Bruce Katz interviewed by Ray Suarez in a NewsHour with Jim Lehrer discussing President Bush's plan to rebuild after Hurrican Katrina.
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Mon, 23 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Presentation by Bruce Katz at The Advancing Regional Equity Summit. The second national summit on equitable development, social justice , and smart growth held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
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Thu, 12 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation to the Premier's Leaders Forum on Strategic Growth in Toronto, Canada, Bruce Katz explains the forces of economic and demographic change in the U.S. The implications of these forces on the need for and benefits of density are then explained.
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Wed, 11 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Presentation by Mr. Katz at the National Development Council in Chicago.
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Mon, 02 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation at the Rebuilding Upstate NY: What Works II Symposium, Mr. Katz discussed the major trends affecting upstate New York, what the implications are of these trends, and what core cities can do to be competitive.
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Fri, 18 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation at the Habitat Urban Conference, Bruce Katz discussed the general demographic and economic trends affecting the United States, its cities and its suburbs, and what these trends mean for urban and metropolitan policy.
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Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Bruce Katz examines the policy innovations necessary for cities and metropolitan areas to take advantage of national trends--demographic, economic, and social--that bode well for density and urbanity.
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Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Broad changes across America—demographic, economic, and social—are remaking not just the nations cities but also its older suburbs, foretelling a surprisingly urban future, provided cities make smart policy choices in concert with new, bro
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Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation given at the Wingspread Conference, Mr. Katz describes the profound demographic, market, and social forces affecting the United States. He discusses how these forces dramatically improve the competitive prospects of cities. And h
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Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation, Bruce Katz discusses what has happened to older suburban America since the 1950s.
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Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation to the Welsh Assembly, Bruce Katz defined neighborhoods of deprivation in the United States, discussed their impacts, and detailed strategies that have been pursued in the U.S. to address areas of deprivation.
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Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation to the Delivering Sustainable Communities Summit, Bruce Katz proposes cities need to adopt and adapt tools of the corporate trade to maximize their competitiveness.
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Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation to the Delivering Sustainable Communities Summit, Mr. Katz discussed the general demographic trends affecting the United States, its metropolitan areas, and what these trends mean for urban and metropolitan policy.
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Sun, 30 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Bruce Katz and David Jackson suggests that the Puget Sound region must address transportation, housing and schools to become truly great.
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Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT
It's time to get on to the real work, now that Louisville has accomplished the most significant city-county merger in 30 years.
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Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Presentation by Mr. Katz to the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference, Sept. 30, 2004
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Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Presentation by Mr. Katz to the National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference, Sept. 29, 2004
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Fri, 04 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation to the Mid-America Regional Council, Bruce Katz discussed the policies the Kansas City region can pursue to help it move toward a brighter economic future.
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Sat, 01 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT
In this chapter from the book ""What We Stand For"" edited by Mark Green for the New Democracy Project, Bruce Katz argues that federal policies need to reflect �the metropolitan America that is rather than the urban America that was.""�
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Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMT
This presentation given by Bruce Katz to the Land Use Coalition at Yale (LUCY) presents the major trends affecting cities and metropolitan areas, the forces driving these trends, and the policy solutions available to affect positive change.
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Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT
This PowerPoint presentation by Bruce Katz at the Public Policy Roundtable on Weak Market Cities in New York examines the demographic, market, social and housing, and market trends occurring in these mostly Rust Belt places, as well as available poli
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Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT
The Pittsburgh region is a national leader in one area: too many little local governments. Bruce Katz and Mark Muro say there's only one place to seek help: Harrisburg.
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Mon, 08 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This PowerPoint by Bruce Katz, presented to the Pennsylvania Economic League in Philadelphia, illustrates stagnant growth, housing sprawl, and the increasing abandonment of Pennsylvania's cities and older suburbs--trends dimming the prospects for dev
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Sun, 07 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT
The time is right to revive Pennsylvania's cities, towns and older suburbs...starting with efficient land use and development.
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Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This PowerPoint by Bruce Katz illustrates stagnant growth, housing sprawl, and the increasing abandonment of Pennsylvania's cities and older suburbs--trends dimming the prospects for developing a high-wage economy in the state.
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Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This powerpoint by Bruce Katz, presented at the Council on Foundations, highlights the trends affecting cities and metropolitan regions, the consequences of these trends, and outlines policy areas foundations should be thinking about for the future.
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Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This powerpoint by Bruce Katz, presented at the Fannie Mae Foundation Annual Housing Conference, highlights how important it is for cities to understand their demographics and economies so they can plan and act with a clear understanding of their ass
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Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT
In these remarks presented at the Michigan Future Forum, Bruce Katz discusses issues around regional growth, competitiveness and governance.
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Wed, 09 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Bruce Katz's presentation to the Vacant Land Forum reviews the 10 steps to urban land reform. It highlights the 10 steps with innovative case studies and programs from cities and counties that are struggling with vacant land and brownfi
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Sun, 08 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This Opinion by Bruce Katz and Mark Muro in the Hartford Courant argues that the fiscal benefits of curbing sprawl deserve consideration as Connecticut and other states contend with serious budget deficits.
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Sun, 01 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Older suburbs, often ignored in favor of traditional central city issues or growth issues on the urban fringe, could help redirect metropolitan policy in favor of existing communities, writes Bruce Katz in his foreword to ""Halfway from Everywhere: A
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Wed, 21 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This powerpoint by Bruce Katz presented to Grow Smart Rhode Island illustrates the general trends affecting Rhode Island, its cities, and its metropolitan areas.
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Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This commentary by Bruce Katz and Mark Muro in the Detroit News contends that fostering more compact development in Michigan and elsewhere makes even more sense in hard times, since reform can save taxpayers money.
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Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This powerpoint by Bruce Katz, presented before the first meeting of Gov. Granholm's state land use commission, illustrates Michigan's growth and development trends, their consequences, and implications for state policy.
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Thu, 09 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This Opinion by Bruce Katz in the Baltimore Sun, January 9, 2003 calls on Congress to provide states and cities necessary fiscal relief and to reverse its drift toward unfunded mandates and programmatic inflexibility.
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Mon, 15 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT
This powerpoint presentation presents the major findings of the study commissioned by the City of Louisville in respect to its consolidation with Jefferson County.
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Wed, 15 May 2002 00:00:00 GMT
Smart Growth and Metropolitan Reform: New Haven
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Tue, 08 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Bruce Katz, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
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Wed, 28 Nov 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Smart Growth and Community Development: The Necessary Connection
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Fri, 02 Nov 2001 00:00:00 GMT
The New Metropolitan Agenda: Michigan
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Wed, 10 Oct 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Building a Competitive Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Biotech Association
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Sun, 13 May 2001 00:00:00 GMT
An Opinion by Bruce Katz, Senior Fellow, the Brookings Instiution, in the Boston Globe discussing the dispersed nature of metropolitan area economies
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Wed, 01 Dec 1999 00:00:00 GMT
An op-ed article by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley that appeared in the December 1999 issue of Atlantic Monthly.
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Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Review article by Bruce Katz and Katherine Allen (Fall 1999)
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Sun, 01 Aug 1999 00:00:00 GMT
An Oped by Bruce Katz, Senior Fellow and Director, Brooking Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, in the Washington Post, August 1, 1999
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Tue, 01 Sep 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Review article by Bruce Katz and Scott Bernstein (Fall 1998)
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Mon, 01 Jun 1998 00:00:00 GMT
New coalitions are emerging to promote metropolitan solutions at state and regional levels. A real urban revival will also require a federal metropolitan agenda. Policy Brief #33, by Bruce Katz (June 1998)
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Mon, 09 Feb 1998 00:00:00 GMT
An Oped by Bruce Katz, Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, in The Baltimore Sun, February 9, 1998
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Sat, 21 Jun 1997 00:00:00 GMT
An Oped by Bruce Katz, Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, in The Hartford Courant and The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 21, 1997
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Wed, 28 May 1997 00:00:00 GMT
Speech by Bruce Katz, at the National Issues Forum Forging Metropolitan Solutions to Urban and Regional Problems, May 28, 1997
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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 GMT
As they grow and change, the nation's first suburbs show signs of stress ahead.