Going Local: A Transatlantic Perspective
Editorial Team
2. März 2020
New Urban Progress is working on making the cities of the future work. 100 experts will meet in Washington DC on March 10th to discuss inclusive innovation, networked governance, and social mobility in cities and metropolitan areas. Using these three themes as a framework, they will focus on identifying the current challenges US cities are facing.
The Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) and two German think tanks, Das Progressive Zentrum and Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft, have joined forces on a three-year, comparative study of metro innovation. Please join us March 10, 2020 at the Line Hotel in Washington, D.C. for the U.S. launch of the project, New Urban Progress.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
Banneker Room at The LINE Hotel DC
1770 Euclid St NW, Washington, D.C. 20009
8:00 AM to 2:00 PM
The launch will feature conversations with prominent urban leaders and mayors, including:
- Mayor Bill Peduto, Pittsburgh, PA
- Mayor Levar Stoney, Richmond, VA
- Former Mayor Sly James, Kansas City, MO
The program will also include a growing list of top metro analysts and practitioners
- Bruce Katz – The New Localism
- Amy Liu – Brookings Institution Metro Center
- Steven Bosaker – GMF Cities
- Joda Thongnopnua – Metro Ideas Project, Chattanooga
- Sonya R. Porter – Census Bureau
The aim of New Urban Progress is to study and compare notes on creative metro problem-solving in three U.S. cities and three German cities. The March 10 forum will focus on the project’s three main organizing themes:
- How cities can promote inclusive innovation and growth (including digital transformation and energy transition)
- How cities are pioneering networked governance that taps a broad array of civic actors to get things done
- How cities deal with the challenges of social mobility (including education, skill acquisition and affordable housing)
At a time when Washington seems politically and financially incapacitated, we advocate for a “flexible federalism” that shifts more decisions and resources to Mayors and other local leaders. PPI is a strong proponent of “going local”, and together with our German partners, we’ll spend the next three years highlighting metro innovations with the aim of sparking a cross-fertilization of ideas for local initiative and ground-up problem-solving.
The project is supported by the Transatlantic Program of the Federal Republic of Germany and funded by the European Recovery Program (ERP) of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi).
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