Article: What Comes Next for Our Metro Nation: The New Forces Driving Regionalism
October 2009 - Remarks by Bruce Katz, Vice President & Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, from the Met Council's 2009 Regional Policy Conference, cosponsored by McKnight.
The focus of the conference was the Obama administration’s emerging urban/regional agenda and the implications for the Twin Cities metropolitan area. In his speech, Katz argued that the United States is increasingly a "metro nation" and demands a new federal-local policy that "encourages, facilitates and supports a new kind of metro governance in the nation."