The Brookings Institution

A new Brookings study examines five metro areas to determine which strategies foster technology development.

This report analyzes the substantial increase of federal spending in the Washington area during 2002 and how this boost cushioned the area's economy during a national recession.

Increasing access to employment at larger, high-wage firms can raise earnings prospects for low-wage workers, a new study shows.

In this report, author William Frey finds that regions like New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco gained significant numbers of immigrants between 1995 and 2000, but at the same time lost domestic migrants to faster-growing metropolitan

This overview of growth policy in the Twin Cities region recounts the evolution of a number of policy tools—for infrastructure, parks and open space, and transportation—and their interaction.

A credit to enhance income security for both low-income families could broaden the political constituency for investments in working families.

The first of a series of reports analyzing population and migration data for the Upstate New York region probes the implications of the area's stagnant growth.

An analysis of Miami-area schools shows that growth on the suburban fringe is increasing economic school segregation across the entire region.

America's aging population will exacerbate existing transportation problems while requiring new approaches to meet changing needs. Pushing beyond the stereotypes of elderly mobility, this analysis looks at a host of emerging issues and pro

In this brief, Evelyn Blumenberg and Margy Waller argue that the strong link between car ownership and employment suggests automobile access assistance should play a key role in efforts to support low-income workers.

Despite the prosperity of the 1990s, robust inner city retail development did not follow.

Suburbs continue to dominate the United States' economic, social, and political landscape, writes Bruce Katz.

The Earned Income Tax Credit may be a better tool for providing affordable housing than federal housing supports.

One-time charges against new development foster growth by providing an increased and predictable supply of buildable land, according to a Brookings Report.

The Brookings Institution's Bruce Katz argues that now is right time for Connecticut to re-evaluate and reform their destructive its wasteful growth trends.

The heterogeneous nature of metropolitan Washington's immigrant population poses varied challenges to jurisdictions throughout the region.

A keynote peech by Anthony Downs on affordable housing and growth management.

A new study by William Bogart examines the link between communitydevelopment organizations and thevitality of community development itself.

The surge in high-poverty inner-city neighborhoods reversed in the 1990s, but hidden problems remain.

Brookings Reviews a new book, Mega Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment.