Cities Will Save The Country

Drexel’s Metro Finance director on the return of “New Localism” in the second age of Trump

By Bruce Katz and Florian Schalliol
New Urban Order

Expand — Yes, Expand — Public Transit

New York City, Seattle and Sydney are doubling down on public transportation amid the ongoing work-from-home trend. Why this counterintuitive move is an idea Philly should steal

By Diana Lind
Listen

Business as Unusual

In the latest installment of The Citizen’s acclaimed podcast, Kathryn Wylde, CEO of Partnership for New York, shares the secrets to — and power of — harnessing cities’ business communities.

By Jessica Blatt Press

What Can Philly Learn from NYC’s Mayor’s Race?

Our mayoral elections have often tended (lightly anyway) to mirror what happened in New York, Philly 3.0’s engagement editor says. What does this month’s race in NYC mean for Philly?

By Jon Geeting
Ideas We Should Steal

Moving The Needle on Poverty

New York is the only big American city that has cut its poverty rate. Mayor Bloomberg’s former anti-poverty czar talks about making it happen by taking risks

By Larry Platt
Ideas We Should Steal

IDNYC

A plan to provide IDs for Philly’s poor and undocumented should take a lesson from New York City

By Hannah Keyser

The New Guard Party Bus

We took a group of young disruptors to Pennsylvania Society…and returned with a heightened sense of possibility

By Larry Platt

Get On The Bus

This weekend, we’re taking a group of disruptors on an “Innovation Invasion” of the Pennsylvania Society soiree in New York City

By Larry Platt
Ideas We Should Steal

Go Small!

Large one-size-fits-all high schools are failing.  In New York City, an experiment in small schools seems to be working.

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Ideas We Should Steal

START-UP NY

Tax credits in New York are fueling economic growth. Can that work here?

By Larry Platt