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RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioMountain Megas: America's Newest Metropolitan Places and a Federal Partnership to Help Them Prosper

Robert E. Lang, Andrea Sarzynski and Mark Muro, July 20, 2008, The Brookings Institution

Mountain Megas: America's Newest Metropolitan Places and a Federal Partnership to Help Them ProsperIn this report, the authors describe and assess the new supersized reality of the Intermountain West and proposes a more helpful role for the federal government in empowering regional leaders’ efforts to build a uniquely Western brand of prosperity that is at once more sustainable, productive, and inclusive than past eras of boom and bust. Read More

Intermountain West, Competitiveness, Regions and States, Political Conventions

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Save to My PortfolioMetropolitan Las Vegas: Challenges, Opportunities, and a Vision

Mark Muro and Robert E. Lang, September 08, 2009, University of Nevada Las Vegas

In speeches delivered at the Las Vegas roll-out of the Brookings Mountain West Initiative Mark Muro and nonresident senior fellow Robert Lang argue that Las Vegas presents an exaggerated version of America’s economic quandary. Muro declares that Las Vegas presents, in extreme form, some of the fundamental questions facing the whole country as it faces a major economic “reset” while Lang contends it can still emerge as America’s next true world city. Read More

Competitiveness, Regions and States, U.S. Economic Growth, Intermountain West

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Save to My PortfolioThe Sun Corridor as Mountain Mega: One of America's Newest Metropolitan Places and a Federal Partnership to Help It Prosper

Friday, November 21, 2008
8:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Phoenix, AZ

The authors of the report, “Mountain Megas: America’s Newest Metropolitan Places and a Federal Partnership to Help Them Prosper” held a forum in Phoenix to discuss population growth and economic/demographic change in America’s Intermountain West. Read More

Intermountain West, Demographics, Regions and States, Community Development, U.S. Economic Growth

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Save to My PortfolioWestern Perspective: Mountain Megas

Robert E. Lang and Mark Muro, October 14, 2008, Headwaters News

Mark Muro and Robert Lang in a recent Headwaters News column bring to attention the “New American Heartland” — the Intermountain West, noting that the region's signature issues increasingly reflect the nation's, whether it be road and rail infrastructure, job quality, immigration, or energy. Read More

Intermountain West, Competitiveness, Regions and States, U.S. Economic Growth, U.S. Politics

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Save to My PortfolioWhat the Delegates Can Learn From Denver

Jennifer Bradley and Bruce Katz, August 25, 2008, The Brookings Institution

What the Delegates Can Learn From DenverWhat will delegates take away from the Denver convention? Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley write that Denver is the shape of things to come. Denver and its region’s leaders collaborate across borders and program areas as a full-fledged metropolitan area. Metro areas are the true engines of our national economy and Denver gets it. Read More

Intermountain West, Elections, Regions and States, Political Campaigns, Politics

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioPainting the Mountain States Blue

William H. Frey and Mark Muro, August 25, 2008, The Boston Globe

Democrats plant their blue flag in America's newest, most geographically expansive "swing" region - the fast-growing, increasingly diverse, no-longer-reliably-Republican Intermountain West. Read More

Intermountain West, Elections, Regions and States, Political Conventions, Political Campaigns

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Save to My PortfolioThe Political Geography of the Intermountain West: The New Swing Region

William H. Frey and Ruy Teixeira, August 19, 2008, The Brookings Institution

The Political Geography of the Intermountain West: The New Swing RegionLong viewed as a GOP stronghold, the Intermountain West states have recently elected a number of Democrats in statewide races. In this analysis of what they term “the new swing region,” William Frey and Ruy Teixeira crunch the demographic and voting numbers to determine which voters where will decide the 2008 presidential contest in Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona. Read More

Intermountain West, Demographics, U.S. Politics, Regions and States, Elections

In Brief

States in the southern Intermountain West—Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah—are experiencing some of the nation’s fastest population growth, which includes economic and demographic transition. Brookings experts describe the new supersized reality of the Intermountain West and the ways in which the federal government might empower regional leaders’ efforts.

Brookings and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, are partnering to bring Brookings research to bear on the issues facing the dynamic and fast-growing Intermountain West region. Every year, Brookings will send scholars from each of its five research programs to spend three weeks at UNLV to conduct research, meet with faculty and deliver lectures and seminars. 

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Featured Experts

Robert E. Lang

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program

An urban planning and policy expert, Robert Lang focuses on suburban studies; demographic and spatial analysis; metropolitan governance; the “built environment”; and other issues of environmental psychology. He is a director of the Metropolitan Institute at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and is research director for the Brookings Mountain West Initiative with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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William Antholis

William J. Antholis

Managing Director, The Brookings Institution

William Antholis is managing director of the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow in Governance Studies. He also directs the Brookings Mountain West Initiative with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Antholis has worked on foreign security and economic policy at the National Security Council and the State Department, and was director of studies at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
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Mark Muro

Mark Muro

Fellow and Policy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program

Mark Muro, a fellow and director of policy for the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, manages the program's public policy analysis and leads key policy research projects.
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William H. Frey

William H. Frey

Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program

An internationally known demographer, Bill Frey specializes in issues involving urban populations, migration, immigration, race, aging, political demographics, and the U.S. Census. He is also a research professor in population studies at the University of Michigan.
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ExpertTed Gayer

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Research ProjectLatin America Initiative

The Latin America Initiative provides high-quality, in-depth, and independent research across a range of economic and political issues, and offers policy recommendations aimed at U.S. and Latin American policymakers.

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