Bruce Katz

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Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program | The Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy

Bruce J. Katz is a vice president at the Brookings Institution and founding director of the Brookings 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.

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    The Metropolitan Revolution

    2013

    The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy details the most important attributes of America’s next economy. Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley explain how states can help build the foundation of the new economy, and a big part of that is adequately supporting their metropolitan economic engines.

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Contact

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202.797.6277 — Marikka C. Green

202.797.6139 — Metropolitan Policy Program

Resources

Expertise

  • Community reinvestment
  • Demographic trends
  • Economic development
  • Government reform
  • Housing
  • Poverty
  • State and local policy
  • Social policy
  • Transportation reform
  • Urban and metropolitan policy
  • Urban and regional politics
  • Welfare reform

Experience

Current Positions

  • Visiting Professor, London School of Economics

Past Positions

  • Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1993-96)
  • Staff Director, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs (1992-93)
  • Senior Counsel, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs (1987-92)
  • Associate, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson

Education

  • J.D., Yale Law School, 1985
  • B.A., Brown University, 1981

Language Fluency

  • English

The Metropolitan Revolution

 
In the face of federal gridlock, metropolitan areas are stepping up with solutions. In The Metropolitan Revolution book and iPad app, Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley show how metro leaders are reshaping our economy and fixing our broken political system.

Visit the book's site for more information »

Past Events

Download the Sizing the Clean Economy iBook for iPad

Findings from our report on the green jobs sector now are available in an iBook for the iPad, which can be downloaded from Apple's iTunes Store. The iBook features Bruce Katz's presentation and speech, providing insight about how the clean economy can propel U.S. metropolitan areas into a new next economy.

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"I think it is not sufficient just to get the city's fiscal house in order. If Detroit is to become a functioning city economically, the plan must address improved service delivery — including public safety — and expanded infrastructure investment."

Source: The Associated Press

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