Fellow Focus: Victoria, Sanjay and Alexander
We proudly introduce the last three fellows of the New Urban Progress...
Both the United States and Europe are confronting a rising tide of illiberal populism that needs a bold and collaborative response. We believe cities are rising actors that can deliver the necessary answers to this, and other global issues. They can also serve as a vehicle for relaunching a transatlantic dialogue, based on collaboration and progressive values. The New Urban Progress project will connect city leaders and urban experts across the Atlantic to develop a sustainable and equitable vision for cities and metro areas in Germany and the United States.
Across the United States and Europe, metropolitan regions have emerged as hubs of public innovation and collaborative problem-solving. A new model for progressive governance is emerging from some of our most dynamic cities, large and small.
This urban uprising yields instructive insights for local and national policymakers in the United States and Europe. Both confront a rising tide of illiberal populism and would benefit from learning more about what creative cities on both sides of the Atlantic are doing to renew liberal democracy from the ground up. Our project will focus on the city as a laboratory and experimental area for three topics:
By launching a transatlantic dialogue with young leaders, political practitioners, urban policy experts, journalists, and civil society actors from both sides of the Atlantic, we want to answer the following questions:
We want to contribute to the German-U.S. rapprochement by complementing intergovernmental diplomatic efforts with citizen diplomacy, emphasizing people-to-people exchanges. We want to engage young Germans and U.S.-Americans in a dialogue on contemporary social, cultural, and economic phenomena present in all post-industrial multicultural societies and through this lens, focus on what we have in common, instead of divisions.
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