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The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.
In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.
Power is shifting in the world: downward from national governments and states to cities and metropolitan communities; horizontally from the public sector to networks of public, private and civic actors; and globally along circuits of capital, trade, and innovation.
This new locus of power-this new localism-is emerging by necessity to solve the grand challenges characteristic of modern societies: economic competitiveness, social inclusion and opportunity; a renewed public life; the challenge of diversity; and the imperative of environmental sustainability. Where rising populism on the right and the left exploits the grievances of those left behind in the global economy, new localism has developed as a mechanism to address them head on.
New localism is not a replacement for the vital roles federal governments play; it is the ideal complement to an effective federal government, and, currently, an urgently needed remedy for national dysfunction.
In The New Localism, Katz and Nowak tell the stories of the cities that are on the vanguard of problem solving. Pittsburgh is catalyzing inclusive growth by inventing and deploying new industries and technologies. Indianapolis is governing its city and metropolis through a network of public, private and civic leaders. Copenhagen is using publicly owned assets like their waterfront to spur large scale redevelopment and finance infrastructure from land sales.
Out of these stories emerge new norms of growth, governance, and finance and a path toward a more prosperous, sustainable, and inclusive society. Katz and Nowak imagine a world in which urban institutions finance the future through smart investments in innovation, infrastructure and children and urban intermediaries take solutions created in one city and adapt and tailor them to other cities with speed and precision.
As Katz and Nowak show us in The New Localism, "Power now belongs to the problem solvers."
In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.
Power is shifting in the world: downward from national governments and states to cities and metropolitan communities; horizontally from the public sector to networks of public, private and civic actors; and globally along circuits of capital, trade, and innovation.
This new locus of power-this new localism-is emerging by necessity to solve the grand challenges characteristic of modern societies: economic competitiveness, social inclusion and opportunity; a renewed public life; the challenge of diversity; and the imperative of environmental sustainability. Where rising populism on the right and the left exploits the grievances of those left behind in the global economy, new localism has developed as a mechanism to address them head on.
New localism is not a replacement for the vital roles federal governments play; it is the ideal complement to an effective federal government, and, currently, an urgently needed remedy for national dysfunction.
In The New Localism, Katz and Nowak tell the stories of the cities that are on the vanguard of problem solving. Pittsburgh is catalyzing inclusive growth by inventing and deploying new industries and technologies. Indianapolis is governing its city and metropolis through a network of public, private and civic leaders. Copenhagen is using publicly owned assets like their waterfront to spur large scale redevelopment and finance infrastructure from land sales.
Out of these stories emerge new norms of growth, governance, and finance and a path toward a more prosperous, sustainable, and inclusive society. Katz and Nowak imagine a world in which urban institutions finance the future through smart investments in innovation, infrastructure and children and urban intermediaries take solutions created in one city and adapt and tailor them to other cities with speed and precision.
As Katz and Nowak show us in The New Localism, "Power now belongs to the problem solvers."
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Index
Abeline, Texas, 232
Advanced Robotics Manufacturing (ARM), 68–69
van Agtmael, Antoine, 72–74
Alexander, Hahna, 80
Allen, Paul, 32
AlphaLab, 64
Angry populism. See Populism
Archimedes, 234
Auken, Svend, 121
Aurora Innovation, 68
Authority: culture as, 52–53; government as, 2, 8, 216–17, 224–25, 246; networking for, 232–33
Bakker, Fred, 72–74
Baldwin, James, 17
Baltimore, 165–68
Banks: government and, 179–81; law for, 218–19; as public assets, 220–22; in United States, 187–88
Bares, John, 63
Bechtel Group, 61–62
Bergheiser, Matt, 153
Berke, Andy, 84–85
BioCrossroads. See Central Indiana Corporate Partnership
Biomedicine. See Medicine
Bissinger, Buzz, 139
Black Swan, The (Taleb), 41
Bluegrass Economic Advancement Movement (BEAM), 164
Boehm, Ted, 91–92
Bogason, Peter, 117
Brainbelts, 72–80
Brexit, vii, 5, 53
Brown, Jeff, 198
Business: philanthropy and, 32; politics of, 231; in urban policy, 243
Business Improvement Districts (BIDs): leadership and, 235; in media, 117–18; for urban growth, 110, 114–15
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, 38
Cabaldon, Chris, 89
Cantor, Eric, 37
Capital, networks for, 193
Capitalism, 43–44
Carnegie, Andrew, 78–79
Carnegie Mellon University, 61–63, 240
Carter, Don, 78–79
Catholic schools, 159–60
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP), 95–98, 102–09, 206, 240
CEO as Urban Statesman, The (Williams), 110
CEOs, 111–14
Change. See Progress
Charter schools, 26, 157–58
Chattanooga, Tennessee, 84–87, 229
Chicago, 7, 163, 193–95
Children. See Education
China, 51
China Syndrome, The (film), 61
Christensen, Clayton M., 173
Cincinnati, 112–13
Cities. See Localism; Vanguard cities
City languages, 235
Civic connectivity, 191–93
Civil society capital intermediaries, 185–87
Clarke, Susan, 20
Class, 44–45, 94
Cleveland, 111–12, 129, 235
Clinton, Bill, 193
Clinton, Hillary, 37
Cogoverning, 36
Collaboration: in Denmark, 131; elections and, 234–35; in politics, 235; for urban growth, 101–03, 230–31
Commercial rules, 47–48
Communiti...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One: Power Reimagined
- Two: New Localism and the American City
- Three: Everything Has Changed
- Four: Revaluing Urban Growth
- Five: Rethinking Governance
- Six: Reclaiming Public Wealth
- Seven: New Localism and Economic Inclusion
- Eight: Inventing Metro Finance
- Nine: Financing the Future
- Ten: Toward a Nation of Problem Solvers
- Notes
- Index
- Reader’s Guide
- Praise for The New Localism