Category: Publications

Transatlantic Recovery and Renewal: Social Mobility and Climate Action

How can cities recover from the pandemic and build their resilience to threats like climate change? The New Urban Progress working group on Sustainability and Social Mobility explores how social and environmental issues are interrelated. In this post, the group sets the scene for making comparisons across the Atlantic.

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Q&A: Defining Inclusive Growth and Innovation

How can innovation make growth more inclusive? The New Urban Progress working group on inclusive growth and innovation sketches out the challenges cities face – and the solutions that innovation can offer. In this Q&A, the Inclusive Growth and Innovation working group present (and answer) key questions on the intersections between innovation, inclusion, and growth in urban spaces.

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Empowering Cities: The American Rescue Plan – New Podcast Episode

Listen to our new podcast episode: We discuss how cities can use Biden’s 1.9 trillion dollar American Rescue Plan to build back better.

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Literature Review: Reading the City

The New Urban Progress working group on Networked Governance and Democracy wrote a literature review to find common ground and a basis for their group work.

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Live: Metro Diplomacy – Cities as Transatlantic Changemakers

Did you miss our panel discussion Metro Diplomacy: Cities as Transatlantic Changemakers with State Secretary Almut Möller, Plenipotentiary of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg to the Federation, the European Union and for Foreign Affairs and Mayor Stephen K. Benjamin of Columbia, South Carolina?

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Cities as Transatlantic Changemakers: Working Paper

Cities as Transatlantic Changemakers – Seeking Common Ground for a Progressive Future

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Our Mission

In times of tense transatlantic relations, we need to find ways to foster close U.S.-German relationships on…

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