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  Brookings: U.S. Is Literally Falling Apart

  Jeffrey Hill | Sat, Jul 26th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: jeffrey hill, economy, energy, education, infrastructure, jobs, politicians, money, democrats, katrina, oil, mccain, research, minneapolis, traffic, virginia, budget, investment, brookings, trains, brookings institute, planning, broadband, manufacturing, tim kaine, fcc, communications, technology | 0

  Next American City’s Jeffrey Hill was on hand at The Brookings Institute’s Hamilton Project panel discussion last Friday, validating his predictions over the last few months over infrastructure. As Linda Richman would say - America’s infrastructure is neither “in” nor “structured,” discuss…

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  A New National Approach

  Mike Muller | Fri, Nov 9th, 2007 | Category: Report | Tags: mike muller, brookings institute, metropolitan policy program, bruce katz, metronation | 0

  Metro areas catalyze America’s growth, but a lack of federal policy has lead to serious challenges in these regions. What can be done?
  

  Ideas, wealth, and people are not restricted by the political boundaries defined by cities and states, and so neither should government policy, proclaimed Bruce Katz, director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. In fact, metropolitan regions —areas of interdependent cities and suburbs that cross numerous political…

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  The Presidential Urban Agenda: A national approach to the problems cities face

  Mike Muller | Wed, Oct 31st, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: mike muller, presidential urban agenda, democrat, urban agenda, brookings institute, national urban league, city mayors, us conference of mayors | 0

  Planning. Global warming. Infrastructure. “Urban” as a synonym for “black.”
  

  What, exactly, is an urban agenda? The issues of particular concern to urban dwellers also affect the nation as a whole. It can mean different things to different people in different election years. And individual cities face their own unique problems.

  To try and shape the definition of an urban platform and stress the importance of urban policy to the rest of the country, some individuals and organizations…

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