Voice: Bruce Katz

Multiple crises have revealed the need and the power of cities to respond to this moment. Drexel’s Metro Finance director on how a “New Localism” can jumpstart a better rebirth than before Covid-19.

Could the right investments in 2020 bring wealth to city neighborhoods that most need it? As Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab director notes, it’s already happening all across the country.

Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab Director on an urban renewal project that could change Dayton—and set an example for cities everywhere. He talks with Mayor Nan Whaley at next week’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival.

Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab director rethinks the interplay between public investments and private wealth in cities

The Director of Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab on how Shift Capital might help make Kensington a model of the right type of private investment

Check cashers and dollar stores thrive in urban neighborhoods while local businesses struggle. The director of Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab points to a better way

Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab director on how innovative Opportunity Zone leadership can bridge the divide between the haves and have-nots

The director of Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab on the ways that cities are doing the work to lift up communities and create opportunities for all

Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab director on how universities can and should be a moral leader in building equitable, inclusive, successful cities

The director of Drexel’s Metro Finance Lab looks at Cincinnati’s historic transformation of its once moribund core. It’s a model Philly, and other cities, should follow