NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—A “radical shift in power and responsibility” from national governments to metropolitan areas is taking place in urban redevelopment, says Bruce Katz, keynote speaker at the New Jersey Future Redevelopment Conference earlier this month here.
Katz, who was a senior advisor to the secretary of Housing & Urban Development in the early part of the Obama administration, is the author of The Metropolitan Revolution and co-author with Jeremy Nowak of The New Localism, which focuses on how to best revitalize urban environments in an era of limited government support.
“There's an enormous amount of economic insecurity and cultural anxiety out there, in the United States, in Europe,” he said, citing the Brexit decision and the rise of economic nationalism across Europe.
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