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Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In this New York Times “op-chart” Amy Liu analyzes the current state of the New Orleans region four years after Hurricane Katrina. Though rebuilding has blunted some of the recession’s effects, she notes that the city and region still face substantial housing, employment, and environmental challenges.
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Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Though New Orleans has been somewhat shielded from the recession due to its industry composition and ongoing rebuilding activities, four years after Katrina the region still faces major challenges due to blight, unaffordable housing, and vulnerable flood protection. New federal leadership must commit and sustain its partnership with state and local leaders by delivering on key milestones in innovation, infrastructure, human capital, and sustainable communities to help greater New Orleans move past "disaster recovery" and boldly build a more prosperous future.
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Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In this framing paper, Mark Muro, Sarah Rahman and Amy Liu highlight the work of some of the most creative recovery act implementers in metropolitan America, noting that their efforts to innovate come against the grain of federal “business-as-usual.”
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Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
This year's State of the Rockies Symposium at Colorado College focuses on megapolitan areas—combinations of two or more regions into a single economic, social, and urban system. Amy Liu and Mark Muro of the Metro Program, and Robert Lang of Virginia Tech, delivered keynote addresses on how the Pike’s Peak region can leverage the federal role to help it better connect to Denver and the rest of the Front Range “mega" and boost its prosperity.
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Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Hurricane Katrina illustrated that a strong federal-state-local partnership is needed for post-disaster recovery. Amy Liu told a House Homeland Security panel that federal leaders should reward states and localities for achieving a clear set of outcomes that lead to a prosperous recovery, not just over-regulate them with distrust.
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Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In contrast to the nation, the greater New Orleans economy has grown, boosted by the large-scale rebuilding effort underway. There is a new uptick in population growth and the region's unemployment rate is a relatively low 4.9 percent. Yet, storm damage remains widespread, potential destruction from new storms looms large, and state and local leaders must simultaneously confront the opportunities and challenges presented by Washington's economic recovery efforts and the potential sunsetting of the federal Office of Gulf Coast Recovery.
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Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Barack Obama has promised to make urban issues a central part of his presidential agenda. In this broadcast, Amy Liu talks to Kojo Nnamdi and others about strategies for reinvesting in our nation’s urban areas.
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Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Amy Liu and her colleagues 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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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:30:19 GMT
Brookings and the University of Nevada, Reno hosted two Opportunity 08-Nevada forums on issues facing the next president: a Republican issue forum was held August 20 and a Democratic issue forum two days later.
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Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Amy Liu explores the current state of the New Orleans region upon the third anniversary of hurricane Katrina. Noting the city has recovered most of its population and jobs, she argues that serious challenges remain: lack of public services such as hospitals and child care centers, public transit and a deficient system of levees still loom.
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Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:21:25 GMT
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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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Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:25:31 GMT
Pennsylvania’s 16 metropolitan areas have great economic potential. Amy Liu explains tha an effort has to be made to build upon those assets for the future of the Keystone state and the nation as a whole.
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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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Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testifying before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Amy Liu provided an overview of the state of recovery of greater New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
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Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Two years after Hurricane Katrina assessing the social and economic health as well as public services and infrastructure for the New Orleans region.
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Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The recent Supreme Court decision to strike down the use of race as a factor for assigning children to public schools has reignited the debate about the progress of race and opportunity in the U.S.
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Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The authors argue that the same trends of slow growth, "hollowing" metropolitan and rural areas and deindustrialization that have gripped Pennsylvania for decades still do today and require urgent, possibly radical responses.
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Middle-class prosperity is the cornerstone of the American Dream. Americans believe that through hard work and education families can enter the middle class and keep on climbing. However, recent evidence shows that, even with a rebounding U.S. econom
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Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Look to the states and their ballot questions to truly understand the dynamics of the 2006 elections, write Amy Liu and David Jackson. For from coast to coast, and no matter what party at the helm, voters cast their lot with getting things done.
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Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT
What are this year's midterm elections about? Even in the most closely fought face-offs, it's not always clear. Is Iraq the deciding issue? Or will the vote be a broader verdict on the Bush presidency or incumbency in general?
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Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT
This report is published by the UK Department of Communities and Local Government as one of a series associated with the State of the English Cities. It provides an overview of the state of American Cities and argues that while the U.S. and England a
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Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Before more than 600 attendees of the American Planning Association's annual Florida state chapter conference, Amy Liu examined the increasing demand for, and benefits of, higher density development in the nation's major metropolitan areas and the im
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Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Katrina Fact Sheet
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Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Research Brief
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Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Research Brief
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Wed, 05 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT
More than $2 billion in reconstruction aid for the victims of Hurricane Katrina have been lost to ?scams, schemes and stupefying bureaucratic bungles.
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Tue, 06 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation, Amy Liu describes why the high number of higher education institutions in the state of Pennsylvania is a competitive asset to the state and recommends ways the state can better leverage the role of higher ed as partners in achie
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Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation to the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations, Amy Liu discusses the importance of pursuing a holistic policy approach to ensure that the future of southern Louisiana is both prosperous and inclusive.
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Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT
At a session of Leadership Prince George's, Amy Liu summarized the major demographic and economic trends affecting Prince George's County and outlined an integrated approach to build on the county's strengths and address its challenges.
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Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT
report
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Sun, 02 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT
In Pennsylvania, curbing sprawl, reinvesting in towns, and raising the quality of economic development answers to both rural and urban needs.
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Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This powerpoint by Amy Liu, presented at the San Francisco Fall Meeting of the Urban Land Institute, summarizes the academic evidence of the benefits of high density developments for cities and metro areas and examines the nation's progress to date i
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Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Review article by Bruce Katz and Amy Liu (Spring 2000)