An Urban Agenda For An Urban Age

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.

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November 28, 2006, 9:00 AM PST

By Christian Madera @http://www.twitter.com/cpmadera

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.

Thanks to Sarah Jolda

FULL STORY: An Urban Agenda for an Urban Age

Friday, November 10, 2006 in The Brookings Institution

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