Event Recap: Bruce Katz and “The New Localism”
On February 28th, Bruce Katz, former Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution, visited Boston University to discuss his new book “The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism,” which offers a practical road map for cities to plan and fund the future.
As the federal government “leaves the building,” cities are expressing more autonomy as hubs of innovation and productivity. Katz defines this emerging power as the new localism: city-level problem solving in a multi-sector, network economy.
Read more about his lecture here.