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Bruce Katz & Jeremy Nowak, LSE Business Review · April 3
Brexit and the new localism: how to leverage the competitive advantages of UK cities
Three necessary steps for Brexit to spark true societal reform that empowers cities and regions.
As Brexit negotiations enter a delicate phase, it is urgent to think about innovative ways in which Britain can strengthen its economic position while staying true to the political imperative to “take back control” from the European Union. The answer lies in more radical and far-reaching efforts to realise the market and civic potential and leverage the distinctive competitive advantages of U.K. cities and regions.
Bruce Katz · March 28
Financing cities of the future
Author and academic Bruce J. Katz, who also served in the first Obama administration as a senior adviser in Housing and Urban Development, explains the concept of New Localism, and how cities and towns must work collaboratively with innovators to deliver products and services that users really want.
Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast · March 19
The Network Effects that Make Cities Better Problem Solvers
Bruce Katz explains why cities have avoided populism and partisan bickering to become hubs of policy innovation.
CityLab by Richard Florida · March 9
Can a ‘New Localism’ Help Cities Transcend Gridlock?
In a time of national dysfunction and, frankly, gloom, our best hope for our society lies in our cities and metropolitan areas. That’s the message of the newly released book The New Localism, by Bruce Katz, the noted urbanist at the Brookings Institution, and Jeremy Nowak of Drexel University’s Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation. Based on their detailed research into urban trends and initiatives in the United States and around the world, with case studies of Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Copenhagen, and other cities, the book describes the shift from outmoded hierarchical models of national governance to more flexible, networked, multi-stakeholder models of local and metropolitan governance.
Side Walk Talk by Eric Jaffe · March 9
The power of ‘networked governance’ to solve city problems
A Sidewalk Talk Q&A with Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak, authors of “The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism,” on the new era of public, private, and civic collaboration.
In the past few decades, Pittsburgh has rebounded from the collapse of its steel industry to become a global leader in robotics. Indianapolis has broadened its sports-based economy (Kurt Vonnegut famously said city residents passed the time by going to the speedway one day a year and playing miniature golf the other 364) to include a robust life sciences industry. Copenhagen has gone from an unemployment rate of 18 percent into one of the world’s wealthiest cities.
U.S. 1 Princeton by Richard K. Rein · March 7
Redeveloping Our Cities: ‘The New Localism’ Approach
Cities have long been seeking out companies to relocate to their business-friendly confines. By dangling tax breaks and other incentives, cities hope to boost the local economy, provide employment, and add to the property tax base. More recently, it seems, companies have been searching for cities that will be amenable to their workers, particularly the younger employees — millennials — who favor walkable urban centers with a healthy mix of nightlife and arts venues as opposed to the suburban house with the yard and the garage for the obligatory car.
Patronicity by Rob St. Mary · February 26
“New Localism” or How Washington “…is essentially a health insurance company with an army”
Interview with Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution about his new book, co-authored with Jeremy Nowak, “The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism”.
Times Free Press by Pam Sohn · February 4
Sohn: Innovation thrives in ‘new localism’
“New companies and new teams are being formed all the time here, as writers from The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, Wired, and many others have noticed,” Mayor Andy Berke wrote last week in “The Berke Bulletin,” a subscription mayoral email blast.
by Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak · January 12
How a dying city transformed into one of the wealthiest in the world
In the mid-to-late 1980s, Copenhagen was experiencing a 17.5 percent unemployment rate, a loss of taxing capacity, and an annual budget deficit of $750 million. For decades, government policies had subsidized the outmigration of families to the outskirts of Copenhagen, leaving a city overrepresented by pensioners and college students, neither of whom contributed greatly to the city’s tax revenue. With a stagnant economy and the traditional manufacturing industry moving out, the city government had to do something radical to spur economic growth and attract a strong tax base.