Robert Puentes
Robert Puentes is a nonresident senior fellow with the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. Robert's work focuses on the broad array of policies and issues related to metropolitan growth and development including transportation and infrastructure, urban planning, growth management, suburban issues, and smart cities.
The face of transportation is changing rapidly, and it has forced a larger conversation about the role of the system and how it will affect people and the environment... Making the case broadly is not hard on hearts—it’s the process that will be the hard.
2016
Feb
23
Past Event
Pathways to opportunity: Housing, transportation, and social mobility
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Washington, DC
Tackling climate change – particularly from a transportation perspective – will require... [public-private] partnerships largely because traditional governments and public agencies are underperforming... The public sector often does not have the capacity or expertise to design, finance, execute and sustain policies that work, so these partnerships are helping fill the vacuum with a new kind of problem solving.
