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Bruce Katz: How cities will lead the response to 21st century challenges
Bruce Katz is a Distinguished Fellow at the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation and the Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University. The lab was founded in 2018 to help cities develop innovative strategies to leverage public assets and fund infrastructure for public benefit — with a focus on supporting inclusive and equitable growth.
Prior to his work at Drexel University, Katz was the inaugural Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution. He served as Chief of Staff to Henry Cisneros, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, from 1993 to 1996. In 2008, he was a senior advisor to Shaun Donovan, the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Obama Administration.
In the recent book, The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism, Katz and the late Jeremy Nowak focus on the rise of cities and urban networks as the world’s change-makers of the 21st century.
Katz and Nowak argue that addressing the social, economic, and environmental challenges of this century will require a bottom-up approach. The two urban experts call for a shift of power downward from national and state governments to cities and metropolitan communities.
In this conversation, Katz expands on the ideas of New Localism, discusses why urban areas are centers of innovation, and explains how Philadelphia can strengthen its innovation ecosystem around a commitment to inclusion, equity and sustainable growth.
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Bruce Katz is a Distinguished Fellow at the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation and the Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University. The lab was founded in 2018 to help cities develop innovative strategies to leverage public assets and fund infrastructure for public benefit — with a focus on supporting inclusive and equitable growth.
Prior to his work at Drexel University, Katz was the inaugural Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution. He served as Chief of Staff to Henry Cisneros, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, from 1993 to 1996. In 2008, he was a senior advisor to Shaun Donovan, the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Obama Administration.
In the recent book, The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism, Katz and the late Jeremy Nowak focus on the rise of cities and urban networks as the world’s change-makers of the 21st century.
Katz and Nowak argue that addressing the social, economic, and environmental challenges of this century will require a bottom-up approach. The two urban experts call for a shift of power downward from national and state governments to cities and metropolitan communities.
In this conversation, Katz expands on the ideas of New Localism, discusses why urban areas are centers of innovation, and explains how Philadelphia can strengthen its innovation ecosystem around a commitment to inclusion, equity and sustainable growth.