The New Localism: Jeremy Nowak on How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism | PennIUR
Bruce Katz, Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and Jeremy Nowak, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Drexel University’s Lindy Institute for ...
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Nations are no longer driving globalization—cities are — Quartz
Urbanization has already declared itself the mega-trend of the 21st century, with half the world’s population now living in cities ...
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Blue Cities Want to Make Their Own Rules. Red States Won’t Let Them. – NYTimes.com
States have banned local ordinances on minimum wage increases, paid sick days and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. They’ve ...
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Paris Is a Binding Agreement: Here’s Why that Matters | Just Security
A growing chorus of U.S. business leaders, state and local government officials, civil society groups, and foreign partners have condemned ...
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Singaporean Dollar Tokenized Through Ethereum’s Blockchain by the Monetary Authority of Singapore
The future is here. So say a report by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), which in collaboration with a ...
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Bucking Trump, These Cities, States and Companies Commit to Paris Accord – The New York Times
It was unclear how, exactly, that submission to the United Nations would take place. Christiana Figueres, a former top United ...
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Texas Bill Overrides Local Ride-Hailing Regulation
HB 100, signed Monday, creates a “statewide regulatory framework for ride-hailing companies,” the Texas Tribune reports. House Bill 100 undoes ...
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Cryptocurrency Can Shift the Balance of Power Between Cities, States and Nations
One of the most powerful tools of a modern nation is its central bank’s ability to create money “out of ...
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Cities Can Prepare for Trump by Establishing Digital Service Organizations and Mobilizing Civic Tech Communities
Within a few weeks of Trump’s victory, mayors of big “sanctuary cities” throughout America, including New York, Chicago and Los ...
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What is “Municipalism”?
The definition of “municipalism” is still up for grabs. If you Google the word you’ll be given a snippet from Wikipedia about “libertarian ...
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