Urban Policy

Follow The Money

By Michelle Chen
June 3rd, 2009

The White House is rolling out a fresh round of tax credits designed to sweeten the pot for investors so they will finance development in low-income areas. But the veneer of diversity could be a little too polished. more »

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City Recovery Is National Recovery

By Isaiah J. Poole
December 12, 2008

The incoming Obama administration has promised to bring cities out of the federal policy wilderness to which they have been exiled for the past eight years. And, given the scale of the economic crisis facing the country, it must, for the sake of the country.

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Give Mayors a Role in the Obama Administration

By Harry Moroz
October 28, 2008

This year's presidential campaign has not involved the "urban decline" rhetoric that rallied politicians - and policymakers - to the cause of cities in the mid 1960s and late 1970s. Instead, as Alex MacGillis pointed out in Sunday's WaPo, Senator Obama more »

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Talking Cities: A Video Letter from the Nation's Mayors

By Harry Moroz
October 15, 2008

As final preparations for the last presidential debate are made – water glasses weighed and secret memoranda consulted – both candidates have revamped their economic plans for the economic crisis now gripping more »

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How Is the Financial Crisis Affecting Cities?

By Harry Moroz
October 9, 2008

The financial crisis has dug in its heels and Treasury’s plan to buy up troubled assets hasn’t been able to dislodge them. more »

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Beyond Cheney's History of Climatic Evolution

By Harry Moroz
June 2, 2008

Despite an infuriatingly recalcitrant EPA chief and an administration that has suppressed major climate change research for the last four years, global warming is once again at the top of the nation’s policy agenda. more »

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Virtually There: Urban Policy, Campaign Websites, and a Silent McCain

By Harry Moroz
May 15, 2008

“We need to imagine just what a clean, safe, efficient, dynamic, stimulating, just city would look like concretely – we need those images to confront critically our masters with what they should be doing – and just this critical imagination of the city is weak.” more »

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The Age of Infrastructure

By Harry Moroz
February 26, 2008

Perhaps because national infrastructure is so amenable to physiological comparison – highways are the nation’s bloodstream, its sewage systems the digestive tract, its bridges synapses – it is also subject, at least in journalistic cliché, to one of life’s few inevitabilities: aging. more »

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