Public lecture hosted by LSE Cities
Bruce Katz explained how ground-up innovations at a city level are solving the toughest economic problems in the USA, while Anne Power reflected on the relevance of these developments on UK cities.
You can listen to a podcast and video recording of the event here.
Bruce J. Katz is a vice president at the Brookings Institution and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program. He is also co-author of The Metropolitan Revolution (Brookings Press, 2013), a distillation of his work on the emerging metropolitan-led "next economy" and its practitioners around the country working to produce more and better jobs driven by innovation, exports and sustainability. Katz regularly advises federal, state, regional and municipal leaders on policy reforms that advance the competitiveness of metropolitan areas.
Anne Power is Professor with the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE.
Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics (LSE), and director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age project. He is a member of the Mayor of London’s Cultural Leadership Board, and was chief advisor on Architecture and Urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics and architectural advisor to the Mayor of London from 2001 to 2006. He was director of the International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2006. With Deyan Sudjic he is co-editor of The Endless City (2007) and Living in the Endless City (2011) and, with Philipp Rode Shaping Cities in an Urban Age (2018).