America’s Cities Redefining Economic Progress
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America’s heartland is quietly upending traditional notions of how cities work to deliver on their promise of shared prosperity. This means local governments, philanthropy, and the private sector have to work together and work differently. Jennifer Bradley of the Center for Urban Innovation and Rip Rapson of the Kresge Foundation discuss how leaders from Detroit, Fresno, Memphis, and elsewhere are building capacity, creating new models of urban governance, and navigating the friction that inevitably accompanies change.
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