Event recap – Understanding the Economic Development Gap

The Initiative on Cities brought together practitioners and academics for Understanding the Economic Development Gap to discuss the urban development gap, especially as it applies to Gateway and Legacy cities in the U.S. Why have some cities experienced an economic development boom, while others have struggled?

Moderated by Boston University Professor of Economics and IOC Advisory Board member Robert Margo, the panel featured Anne Gatling Haynes who serves as Director of the Transformative Development Initiative at MassDevelopment and as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of City Planning and Urban Affairs at Boston University; and Lily Song who works as a Senior Research Associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of City Planning and Urban Affairs at Boston University.

Read a full recap here.