Metropolitan Economic Strategy
The purpose of this global policy initiative is to promote a worldwide conversation and movement for generating and sustaining prosperity and quality of life for all, in urban regions and rural areas on every continent. Metropolitan Economic Strategy is a new framework spearheaded by Global Urban Development, emphasizing cooperation and teamwork across urban regions to improve economic, social, and environmental health. The framework focuses on creating coordinated public, private, and civic investment strategies that treat all people and communities as assets to be included in the policymaking process, to contribute to the productivity of society, and to benefit from the fruits of prosperity. Metropolitan Economic Strategy is a force for unity in that it emphasizes the common interests of everyone across governmental jurisdictions, and the vital importance of social equity, participatory governance, and environmental sustainability as key building blocks of a competitive and innovative economy at the local, regional, national, and international levels.
Metropolitan Economic Strategy emphasizes the importance of regional cooperation and public-private-civic leadership. In addition, it highlights the importance of social equity and inclusiveness, and environmental protection and sustainable development, in strengthening the economic productivity, innovation, and competitiveness that enables urban regions to thrive by investing in their fundamental assets of people and place, and identifying and growing their dynamic industry networks. Metropolitan Economic Strategy brings together leaders from government, business, professional institutions, community groups, non-governmental organizations, and the communications media in urban regions from nations all over the developed and developing world.
Metropolitan
Economic Strategy enables urban regions to develop a cohesive identity based on
a sense of common purpose and cooperative teamwork, and to foster new global,
national, and local economic policies that recognize the dynamic contribution
of urban areas and the necessity of promoting economic and social equity and a
sustainable environment as essential building blocks of prosperity and quality
of life for all. Through various research and actions projects, including a
book and an international conference, national and metropolitan leaders will be
able more effectively to engage in public policy, private investment, and community
development for the mutual benefit of their respective urban regions, for
reducing poverty, and for generating sustainable and equitable economic growth
worldwide.
This committee currently is conducting a research project funded by the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. The project is designed to identify, describe, and analyze national policies, initiatives, and programs that are explicitly pro-metropolitan, promoting national and urban goals such as economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability, and social equity. These types of public policies are now being formulated and implemented in many countries throughout the world. Marc Weiss is coordinating this research project, working with members of GUD’s Metropolitan Economic Strategy Committee.
Metropolitan
Economic Strategy Committee
Co-Chairs: Peter Hall, Neal Peirce, and Marc Weiss
Abdulrahman Al Ghabban
Ron Armstead
Barbara Askins
Mart Bailey
Andrea Bassi
Charles Billand
Edward Blakely
Lawrence Bloom
Andrew Boraine
Sandra Braunstein
Ian Bromley
Robert Buckley
Sundar Burra
Peter Calthorpe
Haili Cao
Gregory Casagrande
Margaret Caust
Michael Chang
Greg Clark
John Cleveland
J. Thomas Cochran
Rick Cole
Malika Djebli
Michael Donovan
David Dowall
Susan Fainstein
Reese Fayde
David Feehan
Neil Fraser
Colin Fudge
Shari Garmise
Nicky Gavron
Emilio Haddad
Hazel Henderson
Elliott Hoffman
Pamela Hollie
Gyula Horvath
Daniel Inkoom
Kate Joncas
Robert Kehew
Randall Kempner
C. S. Kiang
Thomas Kingsley
Jeroen Klink
Keith Laughlin
Michael Lindfield
Christine Loh
L. Hunter Lovins
Michael Luger
Tony Manwaring
Tom McCawley
Stephanie McClellan
John McIlwain
Egils Milbergs
Jonathan Miller
Dan Montgomery
Suahasil Nazara
James Nixon
Geoffrey Nwaka
Prafulla Padhi
Erik Pages
David Painter
Jiri Patocka
Michael Peck
Anthony Pell
David Poole
Jonathan Potter
Kurt Puchinger
Nicolas Retsinas
Renato Romano
Tom Roper
Maria Rosario
Francesc Santacana
Saskia Sassen
Terry Scaddan
Kurt Schmoke
Erica Schoenberger
Hugh Schwartz
Richard Seline
Asad Shah
Jigar Shah
Philip Shapira
Molly O'Meara Sheehan
Miquel Sodupe
Marcus Spiller
Ludek Sykora
Kian Tajbakhsh
Gabriele Tatzberger
Marta Tellado
Al Victors
Susan Wachter
Jessica Wasserman
Emiel Wegelin
Mark Willis
David Wilmoth
Erna Witoelar
Guang Yang
Robert Yaro
Nicholas You
Belinda Yuen
Joel Yudken
Robert Zdenek
Dimitri Zenghelis
Jieming Zhu
Erla Zwingle