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An Urban Agenda For An Urban Age

Posted by: Christian Peralta Madera
Thanks to: Sarah Jolda
28 November 2006 - 9:00am

Bruce Katz, Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institute, highlights the need for set of new policies for managing the complexity of 21st century cities.

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 reevaluated and overhauled around new spatial realities and paradigms.

Full Story: An Urban Agenda for an Urban Age
Source: The Brookings Institution, November 10, 2006
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Planners, architects, artists, and other community members can make the exploratory walk a key tool in re-making places, stemming from the emotions and atmospheres perceived by people who live there or visit them, and plan outward from the experiential, toward trajectories, shapes, and physical structures.
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