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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioCoordinating Energy Efficiency Region-Wide: The Chicago-Area’s Building Energy Efficiency System

Mark Muro and Sarah Rahman, July 22, 2009, The Brookings Institution

Coordinating Energy Efficiency Region-Wide: The Chicago-Area’s Building Energy Efficiency SystemA regional nonprofit plans on using ARRA funds to boost its current retrofit and weatherization activities in the short-term while promoting greater regional cooperation and expanded services in the long-term. Read More

Metropolitan Recovery and Spending Priorities, Cities, Regions and States, Chicago, Energy Security

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioExpanding Retrofits With Private Financing: Chicago’s Multi-Family Energy Retrofit Program

Mark Muro and Sarah Rahman, July 21, 2009, The Brookings Institution

Expanding Retrofits With Private Financing: Chicago’s Multi-Family Energy Retrofit ProgramThe city of Chicago is using ARRA funds to introduce a new program for retrofit delivery that relies on private sector financing and energy service companies to target property owners of lower-income multi-family homes. Read More

Metropolitan Recovery and Spending Priorities, Cities, Regions and States, Chicago

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioCoordinating Inter-Suburban Recovery: ARRA Initiatives Across Chicago’s Southern Suburbs

Mark Muro and Sarah Rahman, July 20, 2009, The Brookings Institution

Coordinating Inter-Suburban Recovery: ARRA Initiatives Across Chicago’s Southern SuburbsA group of 40 struggling Chicago-area suburbs are utilizing a pre-existing multi-jurisdictional neighborhood stabilization strategy as a framework for linking multiple ARRA funding flows to support community development, energy efficiency and infrastructure upgrades. Read More

Metropolitan Recovery and Spending Priorities, Cities, Regions and States, Chicago

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioMetro Areas Need to Use Power of Their Votes

Bruce Katz and MarySue Barrett, January 22, 2008, Chicago Sun Times

Bruce Katz and his colleague MarySue Barrett argue that presidential candidates can score big with metropolitan voters in places such as Phoenix, New York, Santa Fe and Chicago if they rethink the compact between metro areas and the federal government. Read More

Competitiveness, Cities, U.S. Politics, Chicago, Elections

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioCashing in on the BP Beltway

Robert Puentes, March 01, 2007, Hartford Courant

Commercial interests and smart investors are turning their eyes toward some of our nation's most prominent roadways. Private companies, syndicates, and their advisors are putting up billions of dollars banking on steady, ever increasing toll revenues Read More

Transportation, Cities, Chicago

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioRacial Division and Concentrated Poverty in U.S. Cities

Bruce Katz, July 07, 2006, Urban Age Conference

In this presentation, Bruce Katz provides an overview of current patterns of racial and ethnic separation in the United States, using the Chicago, Washington DC, and New Orleans metros as case studies. Read More

Welfare, U.S. Poverty, New Orleans, Demographics, Ethnicity

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioNew Realities for Chicagoland

Bruce Katz, September 09, 2005, Chicago Metropolitan Mayors Caucus

Presentation by Bruce Katz at the Chicago Metropolitan Mayors Caucus on September 9, 2005.

In this presentation at the Chicago Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, Bruce Katz discussed the new realities facing the Chicago region, their consequences, and what policies should the region focus on to address the new realities. Read More

Chicago, Cities, Sprawl, Demographics

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe City/Region of the Future

Bruce Katz, November 15, 2004, British-American Project

In this presentation to the British-American Project's 2004 Conference in Chicago, Bruce Katz discusses demographic and economic trends occurring in Chicago, the U.S., and the U.K. Read More

Chicago, Cities, Sprawl

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioAccess to Social Services: The Changing Urban Geography of Poverty and Service Provision

Scott W. Allard, August 01, 2004, The Brookings Institution

This paper analyzes the shifting geography of concentrated poverty and its impact on the proximity of social services. Read More

Welfare, Chicago, California, Washington DC

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Calculus of Coalitions: Cities and States and the Metropolitan Agenda

Hal Wolman, The George Washington University, Margaret Weir, University of California, Berkeley, Nicholas Lyon, The George Washington University and Todd Swanstrom, Saint Louis University, April 01, 2004, The Brookings Institution

This paper argues that in response to shifting population distributions within states, cities need to build new coalitions to effectively achieve their legislative goals within state legislatures. Read More

U.S. Politics, Cities, Politics, First Suburbs, Chicago

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioFinancial Education and Asset Building Programs for Welfare Recipients and Low Income Workers: The Illinois Experience

Dory Rand, April 01, 2004, The Brookings Institution

An examination of Illinois? efforts to boost the skills needed to make sound financial decisions for people transitioning off of welfare. Read More

Welfare, U.S. Poverty, Cities, Chicago, Children & Families

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioChicago in Focus: A Profile from Census 2000

November 01, 2003, The Brookings Institution

Chicago in Focus: This Living Cities databook compiles key city information from Census 2000 in a "one-stop" guide for local leaders. Read More

Demographics, Chicago, Cities

PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioShaping the American City: New Approaches to Development Regulation

Friday, January 17, 2003
12:00 AM to
Washington, DC

On January 16-17, 2003, The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy and the American Planning Association sponsored "Shaping the American City: New Approaches to Development Regulation." Nearly 100 participants heard panelists discuss the history of zoning, debate alternatives to contemporary zoning practice, and report on reform efforts being undertaken in Chicago, Miami-Dade County, Milwaukee, and Nashville. Read More

Cities, Chicago

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioRewarding Work: The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit in Chicago

Alan Berube and Benjamin Forman, November 01, 2001, The Brookings Institution

A report examining the impacts of the earned income tax credit on metropolitan areas Read More

Earned Income Tax Credit, Chicago, Working Poor, Cities

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioDo Federal Funds Better Support Cities Or Suburbs? A Spatial Analysis of Federal Spending In The Chicago Metropolis

Haydar Kurban and Joseph Persky, November 01, 2001, The Brookings Institution

This paper examines the spatial distribution of federal spending and the effects of that spending on growth and development in the Chicago metropolitan area Read More

Chicago, Cities, Sprawl

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Bruce Katz

Bruce Katz

Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program
The Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy

Bruce Katz, vice president and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, regularly advises national, state, regional and municipal leaders on policy reforms that advance the competitiveness of metropolitan areas.
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