Urban Policy

Lapped on Urban Sustainability - can the US ever catch up?

Wed, 09/07/2011 - 09:11

Summer travel took me out of the US and back to Sweden for the first time in five years.  While my initial reaction was that things seemed much the same, I quickly realized that the Swedes had quietly pushed forward a number of projects that, if located in the US, would be on the vanguard of sustainability.  But over there it's just called urban planning.

The Growing Impact of Brookings' Bruce Katz

This cover piece from Next American City profiles Bruce Katz, founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, who the magazine calls the "oracle of urban policy".
9 April 2010 - 6:00am
Next American City

Pushing Forward a World Urban Campaign

City and government officials from around the world are in Rio de Janeiro to make the argument that urban hold the key to sustainability. Neal Peirce reports.
23 March 2010 - 7:00am
Citiwire

Urban Policy's Organic Emergence

The White House Office of Urban Affairs is officially in action, but the creation of urban policy seems to have started on its own, according to this column form Neal Peirce.
9 August 2009 - 1:00pm
Citiwire

China's Urban Policy Leaps While U.S. Lags

China's fast-paced development is making it into a major economic power. Its emphasis on urban policy is leaving the U.S. in the dust, writes Eugenie Birch.
18 July 2009 - 1:00pm
Citiwire

White House Begins Urban Policy Creation

The White House is setting forth on its long-planned mission to craft a federal urban policy program. The effort kicks off with a daylong conference today.
13 July 2009 - 11:00am
The Washington Post

A Blueprint for America's Urban Policy?

Isaiah Poole believes that the Institute for America's Future new "Main Street Recovery Program" provides the incoming administration with a strategy for public investments into America's cities.
22 December 2008 - 8:00am
Campaign for America's Future

Obama Administration to Create Office of Urban Policy

When President-elect Obama takes office in January, he says, an Office of Urban Policy will be established, and a Director of Urban Policy will be in place to "coordinate all federal urban programs."
12 November 2008 - 2:00pm
The Washington Post

The Frontier in American Politics

Sun, 11/02/2008 - 06:07

With due respect to Frederick Jackson Turner, the American frontier closes on Tuesday.  This time, for good.

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