Metropolitan
Economic Strategy: Advancing Innovation, Prosperity, and Quality of Life
Metropolitan
Economic Strategy: Advancing Innovation, Prosperity, and Quality of Life,
is Global Urban Development’s special blend of technological innovation, global
competitiveness, sustainability, and inclusiveness designed to generate
prosperity and quality of life for central cities, metropolitan areas, urban
regions, states/provinces, and nations worldwide.
GUD
created its program committee on Metropolitan Economic Strategy: Advancing
Innovation, Prosperity, and Quality of Life program committee in order to make
Metropolitan Economic Strategy a global policy initiative. One early project
involved producing a major theme paper on “Productive Cities and Metropolitan Economic Strategy” for
the UN International Forum on Urban Poverty in Marrakech, Morocco in 2001. In
2002 GUD conducted, with funding from the US Agency for International
Development (USAID), four days of professional training on Metropolitan
Economic Strategy for senior national, provincial, and city government economic
development officials participating in the South African
Cities Network (thanks to Andrew Boraine). GUD
later conducted professional training on urban
economic development for senior USAID officials in Washington, DC during
2006. Thanks to David Dowall for his
collaboration.
During
2003 and 2004, GUD advised the Central Bohemia Regional Government (around
Prague) and the Metropolitan Strategic Plan
Association of Barcelona. GUD also wrote two major reports for the
Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on “Leveraging
Private Financing and Investment for Economic and Community Development” and
on the internationally recognized, award-winning NoMa (North of
Massachusetts Avenue) Sustainable Economic Development Strategy in Washington,
DC. (Thanks to Jonathan Potter, Marco Marchese,
and the OECD’s
Local Economic and Employment Development Program). In 2002 GUD produced a
major report for the National Governors Association (NGA) on State
Policy Approaches to Promote Metropolitan Economic Strategy, and
during 2004-5 we provided strategic advice on Metropolitan Economic Strategy
for the Hampton Roads
Partnership in Norfolk, Virginia. Over
the past decade GUD focused on globalizing Metropolitan Economic Strategy, as
expressed by our research project on cross-border international urban
regions, through our Metropolitan Economic Strategy reports on Barcelona, Belo Horizonte, Cape Town, Curitiba, Johannesburg, San Diego-Tijuana, Shanghai, Singapore, and Trieste-Koper, and in our comparative study for the Brookings Institution on national
policies supporting Metropolitan Economic Strategy.
Currently
GUD is working on Metropolitan Economic Strategy, Sustainable Innovation, and
Inclusive Prosperity in Brazil. We are advising the Federation of Industries of
Minas Gerais (FIEMG) and the State Government of
Minas Gerais, the Federation of Industries of Rio
Grande do Sul (FIERGS) and the State Government of Rio Grande do Sul, and the
Federal Government, including the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development
(ABDI). Please read GUD’s two recent Brazil reports, “Advanced
Manufacturing and Sustainable Innovation: The Third Wave of Industrial and
Urban Economic Growth for Minas Gerais”
(October 2012) and “Local
and Regional Economic Development Opportunities Related to the Implementation
of the Sao Jose do Norte EBR Shipyard in Rio Grande do Sul” (December
2012). Recently Ernani Jardim
de Miranda Machado, a Brazilian technology entrepreneur, has joined GUD as our
Director of Technology Research, and he is working with us on developing
sustainable and innovative new technologies for Brazil and many other
countries.
At
the 2012 UN World Urban Forum on September 5, GUD organized a Networking Event
on “Metropolitan
Economic Strategy and Sustainable Economic Development in Brazil.” Featured speakers included Dr. Mauro Borges Lemos, ABDI President; Olavo Machado
Jr., FIEMG President; Marcus
Coester, President of the Rio Grande do Sul
Development Agency (AGDI); Ines Magalhaes,
National Secretary of Housing at the Ministry of Cities; Cid Blanco Jr.,
Director of Culture, Communications, and Events at the Olympic Public Authority;
Fabio Veras, Deputy Secretary of Economic
Development, State of Minas Gerais; and Marc Weiss.
GUD recently made presentations on Metropolitan Economic Strategy to the
US State Department, USAID, and the FIERGS International
Congress on Innovation.
Please
click here for “Teamwork: Why Metropolitan Economic
Strategy is the Key to Generating Sustainable Prosperity and Quality of Life
for the World.” This
article from the inaugural 2005 issue of GUD
Magazine summarizes our strategic
policy framework. Click here for “Metropolitan
Economic Strategy: The Key to Prosperity,” a shorter version published in
2006 in the Harvard College Economics
Review.
Please
click here for GUD’s 2013 Columbia University slide presentation on Metropolitan
Economic Strategy, Sustainable Innovation, and Inclusive Prosperity.
GUD’s
2002 NGA
report is the most detailed summary of our framework. GUD’s 2008 OECD
Report on NoMa is a good example of how Metropolitan Economic Strategy can
generate successful economic growth and sustainable development.
Metropolitan
Economic Development: Advancing Innovation, Prosperity, and Quality of Life
Committee
Co-Chairs:
Marlene Fernandes, Vinay Lall,
and Marc Weiss
Poonam Ahluwalia
Jamie Alderslade
Rosa Alegria
Jobeda Ali
DeWayne Anderson
Jerome Anderson
Shlomo Angel
Minas Angelides
Phil Angelides
Ron Armstead
Michael Arwas
Barbara Askins
Rob Atkinson
Uri Avin
MarySue Barrett
Antonella Battaglini
Robert Baugh
Nefise Bazoglu
Rob Bennett
Scott Bernstein
Greg Berzonsky
Sergio Besserman Vianna
Lucelena Betancur
Iman Bibars
Charles Billand
Edward Blakely
Cid Blanco Jr.
Susan Blaustein
Lawrence Bloom
Andrew Boraine
Lisa Bornstein
Donald Borut
Uwe Brandes
Sandra Braunstein
Ian Bromley
Scott Brook
Allison Brooks
Rinaldo Brutoco
Robert Buckley
Sundar Burra
David Burwell
Cezar
Busatto
Yves
Cabannes
Peter Calthorpe
Tim Campbell
Haili Cao
Nancy Carter
Gregory Casagrande
Margaret Caust
Simon Cavelle
Don Chen
Henry Cisneros
Greg Clark
J. Thomas Cochran
Rick Cole
Aser Cortines
Lauren Moser Counts
Naomi Davis
Gene DePrez
Hernando De Soto
Dianne Dillon-Ridgley
Sarah Dimson
Hank Dittmar
Malika Djebli
Michael Donovan
Petr Dostal
David Dowall
Ladislau Dowbor
Peter Droege
James Duncan
Susan Fainstein
Reese Fayde
Seth Fearey
David Feehan
Katharina Felgenhauer
Bruce Ferguson
Ismael Fernandez-Mejia
Neil Fraser
Maureen Friar
Robert Friedman
Colin Fudge
Tsuyoshi Fujita
John Fullerton
Yaakov Garb
Shari Garmise
Banning Garrett
James Garrison
Matthew Gassen
Nicky Gavron
John
Geesman
Laurie Geller
Gary Gereffi
Santosh Ghosh
Ernesto Gil
John Gilderbloom
Herbert Girardet
Brendan Gleeson
Parris Glendening
David Godfrey
James Gollub
Eduardo
Guimaraes
Christer Gustafsson
Emilio Haddad
Richard David Hames
Ken Heatherington
Rafal Hejne
Lenneal Henderson
Lynn Hinkle
Elliott Hoffman
Pamela Hollie
Walter Hook
Daniel Hoornweg
Gyula Horvath
Paul Hughes
Eric Huybrechts
Daniel Inkoom
Marc Jahr
Paul James
Curtis Johnson
Kate Joncas
Calestous Juma
Lamia Kamal-Chaoui
Daniel Kammen
Robert Kehew
Randall Kempner
Fred Kent
Ashok
Khosla
Thomas Kingsley
Jeroen Klink
Michael Klowden
Tomasz Komornicki
Paul Krutko
Christian Lalu
Robert Lang
Keith Laughlin
Richard LeGates
Christopher Leinberger
Florian Lennert
Jaime Lerner
Mary Lewin
Richard Lindberg
Michael Lindfield
Rodrigo Loures
Michael Luger
Richard Lumsden
Emil Malizia
Adalberto Maluf
Gideon Mandara
Azim Manji
Tony Manwaring
David Martin
Derek Martin
Cecilia Martinez
Andreia Marin Martins
Rachel Massaro
Busie Matsiko-Andan
Peter Matthies
Patricia McCarney
Tom McCawley
Stephanie McClellan
Cynthia McEwen
Richard McGahey
John McIlwain
Jane McRae
Miguel Mendonca
Cesar Menezes
Egils Milbergs
Jonathan Miller
Regina Miller
Nhlanhla Mjoli-Mncube
Ricardo Montezuma
Eduardo Moreno
Geoff Mulgan
Suahasil Nazara
Etienne Nel
Mary Newsom
Laurie Kaye Nijaki
Henrik Nolmark
Marta Nunes da Costa
Geoffrey Nwaka
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Carla O’Dell
Jeff Olson
Collin O’Mara
Mary Jane Ortega
Amara Ouerghi
Prafulla Padhi
Gerald Page
Erik Pages
David Painter
Haixiao Pan
Elena Panaritis
Julia Parzen
Terry Patinkin
Jiri Patocka
Doug Payne
Michael Peck
Neal Peirce
Anthony Pell
Janice Perlman
Morgan Pillay
Christina Carvalho Pinto
Eva Pisova
Alexander Plessl
Cornelia Poczka
Scott Polikov
David Poole
Jonathan Potter
Philip Psilos
Kurt Puchinger
Bill Randolph
Michael Replogle
Nicolas Retsinas
Alex Ribeiro
Graham Richard
Susan Rochford
Tom Roper
Maria Rosario
Jane Ross
Catherine Ross
Jocelyn Rugunda
Marivel Sacendoncillo
Kendra Sandoval
Wicaksono Sarosa
David Satterthwaite
Saskia Sassen
Terry Scaddan
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Theo Schilderman
Stephanie Schmidt
Kurt Schmoke
Erica Schoenberger
Marybeth Schubert
Hugh Schwartz
Wandia Seaforth
Nancy Sedmak-Weiss
Richard Seline
Igor Semenov
Mona Serageldin
Nola-Kate Seymoar
Asad Shah
Jigar Shah
Philip Shapira
Michael Sherraden
Gholam Shiran
Michael Shuman
D. Wayne Silby
Herbert Simmens
Adele Simmons
Miquel Sodupe
Daniel Solomon
Jeffrey Soule
Michal Sourek
Marcus Spiller
William Stafford
Oliver Stewart
Richard Stren
Sean Sweeney
Ludek Sykora
Kaarin Taipale
Kian Tajbakhsh
Gabriele Tatzberger
Marta Tellado
Ivan Tosics
Martin Tull
Milan Turba
Andrea Veach
Al Victors
Daniely Votto
Susan Wachter
Emily Wadhams
Ramiro Wahrhaftig
Mary Jo Waits
Kim Walesh
Jessica Wasserman
Emiel Wegelin
Michael Wegener
Mark Weinheimer
Marcus Weiss
Lisa Van Well
Edmundo Werna
Dave Wetzel
Gina Whitehill-Baziuk
Kathryn Whitmire
Rogelio Williams
Mark Willis
David Wilmoth
Darcy Stallings
Winslow
Erna Witoelar
Guang Yang
Robert Yaro
Glenn Yoder
Nicholas You
Sun Younian
Belinda Yuen
Joel Yudken
Muhammed Yunus
Robert Zdenek
Dimitri Zenghelis
Jieming Zhu
Susan Zielinski
Larry Zinn
Erla Zwingle