Awakening U.S. Metro Regions

11 July 2007 - 2:00pm

Boston's effort to address global economic competition and environmental issues may be a model for metro regions around the country. Neal Peirce provides an update on the Boston Indicators Project.

"Far too many of America's metro regions have been sleepwalking into the 21st century, only mistily aware of how severely global economic competition and climate change may hit them. Or if aware, so splintered politically they're dangerously slow to respond. Boston is trying to avoid that trap."

Full Story: Getting U.S. Regions Past Sleepwalking

Source: The Washington Post Writers Group, July 1, 2007