Transformative Investments: Remaking American Cities for a New Century

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Across the United States, a broad cross-section of urban practitioners—private investors and developers, government officials, community and civic leaders—are taking ambitious steps to leverage the distinctive physical assets of cities and maximize their economic, fiscal, environmental and social potential. A special class of urban interventions—what we call “transformative investments”—is emerging from the millions of transactions that occur in cities every year, write Bruce Katz and Julie Wagner in an essay for Ethos, a Singapore-based journal.

An Urban Agenda for an Urban Age

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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 reeva

Brookings: Experts - Julie Wagner

Transformative Investments: Remaking American Cities for a New Century

An Urban Agenda for an Urban Age