February 2005 NCP Meeting: Racine, WI

February 2005: Racine, WI

Inaugural New Cities Meeting

Topic Areas: Economic Development, Housing, Transportation, Federal Fiscal Policy
February 10-12, 2005
Location: Wingspread Conference Center: Racine, Wisconsin

• Agenda [PDF]

• Meeting Attendees [PDF]

Presentations:

• “A Transformative Agenda for U.S. Cities”. Bruce Katz, Director of Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. [PDF]

• "High Road or Low Wages: Choices on Economic and Workforce Development”. Joel Rogers, Director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy [PDF]

• “Finding the Hidden Assets: New Strategies for Wealth Creation from Smarter Growth”. Scott Bernstein, President of the Center for Neighborhood Technology. [PDF]
  

• “The New Fiscal Realities”. Alice Rivlin, Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. [PDF]

• “Changing Places”. John Norquist, President and CEO of the Congress for New Urbanism. [PDF]