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How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
Brookings Institution
June 2013
On Sale: June 17, 2013
276 pages
ISBN: 081572151X
EAN: 9780815721512
Kindle: B00D3QBXX6
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Non-Fiction
A revolution is stirring in America. Across the nation
cities and metropolitan areas, and the networks of pragmatic
leaders who govern them, are taking on the big issues that
Washington won’t, or can’t, solve. They are reshaping our economy and
fixing our broken political system. The
Metropolitan Revolution is a national
movement, and the book describes how it is taking root in
New York City, where efforts are under way
to diversify the city’s vast economy; in Portland,
Oregon, which is selling the “sustainability”
solutions it has perfected to other cities around the world;
in Northeast Ohio, where groups are using
industrial-age skills to invent new twenty-first-century
materials, tools, and processes; in
Houston, where a modern settlement house
helps immigrants climb the employment ladder; in
Miami, where innovators are forging strong
ties with Brazil and other nations; in
Denver and Los Angeles,
where leaders are breaking political barriers and building
world-class metropolises; and in Boston and
Detroit, where innovation districts are
hatching ideas to power these economies for the next
century.
Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley
highlight these success stories and the people behind them
in order to share lessons and catalyze action. This
revolution is happening, and every community in the country
can benefit.
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