Facing the Environmental Challenge
Urban regions are the world's dominant population centers and the main growth engines of the global economy. For effective governance, citizenship, urban planning, and economic strategy in metropolitan areas, every level of government and the private and civic sectors must collaborate across jurisdictional boundaries. Public policy and urban management today generally do not correspond to the reality of metropolitan regions as fundamental units of market activity, social interaction, culture, transportation systems, land-use planning, and environmental protection. Many people across the globe are now economic "citizens" of metropolitan regions, but in most cases they are politically disenfranchised within these dynamic and rapidly growing urban agglomerations. Even stable public institutions are increasingly unable to cope with the vast array of problems confronting the entire urban region, and metropolitan residents are generally disconnected at the regional level from governmental decision-making, democratic participation, and citizenship rights and responsibilities. Global Urban Development directly addresses this 21st century challenge by developing cooperative partnerships among the public, private, and civic sectors in urban regions. These partnerships design and implement metropolitan economic strategies to generate increased prosperity; metropolitan land-use and transportation strategies to invest in infrastructure, manage growth, and enhance the urban environment; and metropolitan community development strategies that promote livable neighborhoods with improved housing, education, health, safety, and quality of life. Through effective and inclusive metropolitan strategic partnerships, urban regions can become more economically productive, technologically innovative, socially equitable, and environmentally sustainable.
Facing the Environmental Challenge
Committee
Co-Chairs: Deeohn Ferris, Tom Roper, and Molly O’Meara Sheehan
Michael Arwas
Rob Atkinson
Uri Avin
Vinayak Bharne
Olzod Bhum-Yalagch
Nick Bollman
David Burwell
Peter Calthorpe
Don Chen
Victor Cohen
Rick Cole
Storm Cunningham
Hank Dittmar
Petr
Dostal
James
Duncan
Yaakov Garb
Santosh Ghosh
Ernesto Gil
Peter Hall
Walter Hook
Curtis Johnson
Jeroen Klink
Robert Lang
Keith Laughlin
Christopher Leinberger
Jaime Lerner
Mark Levin
Azim Manji
Jiang
Mingjun
Ricardo
Montezuma
Elizabeth
Moule
Geoffrey
Nwaka
Cornelia
Hahn Oberlander
H. Peter Oberlander
Haixiao Pan
Neal
Peirce
Morgan Pillay
Scott Polikov
Shelley Poticha
Deependra Prashad
Craig Raborn
Michael Replogle
James Rochow
Maria Rosario
Corinne Rothblum
Igor Semenov
Nola-Kate Seymoar
Gholam Shiran
Daniel Solomon
Jeffrey Soule
W. Cecil Steward
Ludek Sykora
Kaarin
Taipale
Lisa Van Well
Dave Wetzel
Gina Whitehill-Baziuk
Nicholas You