 Sponsors
- The Cleveland Foundation
- Cuyahoga Community Public Library
- Enterprise Community Partners
- George Gund Foundation
- Jones Day
- Neighborhood Progress
About the Series
Our Place in the Urban Age is a year-long celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. Through these forums we are exploring the dynamic role of cities in a world transformed by technology, climate change, modern lifestyles, and a global economy. National and local speakers representing various disciplines and perspectives will be addressing four questions:
- What will America's urban centers look like in 15, 25, 50 years?
- What economic functions will they serve?
- How will the quality of life change?
- How will Cleveland and Northeast Ohio adapt?
About this Forum
Restoring Prosperity, A Strategy for Northeast Ohio is a public officials roundtable discussion of the policy
implications for Northeast Ohio of a new report by the Brookings Institution, Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Revitalizing America’s Older Industrial Cities. The report focuses on America’s struggling cities,
particularly those in the Northeast and Midwest (Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut).
Agenda
2:00-2:15 p.m. Welcome
Kathryn W. Hexter, Director
Center for Civic Education, Levin College
Lavea Brachman, Director of Policy and Programs, Greater Ohio
2:15-2:30 p.m. Restoring Prosperity, A Strategy for Northeast Ohio
Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution
2:30-3:30 p.m. Northeast Ohio Public Officials Roundtable Discussion
Moderator: Ned Hill, Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Economic Development, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs and Vice President for Economic Development, Cleveland State University
Roundtable Participants
Mayor Jay Williams, City of Youngstown
James Rokakis, Treasurer, Cuyahoga County
India Pierce Lee, Program Director, The Cleveland Foundation
Kimberly Gibson, Special Assistant to the Lieutenant Governor for Energy, Transportation & Regional Collaboration
Mayor Frank Jackson, City of Cleveland, invited
3:30-4:00 p.m. Audience Q &A
Resources
Forum Summary Report
Restoring Prosperity:
The State Role in Revitalizing Ohio’s Older Industrial Cities
Keynote Address by Bruce Katz, City Club: Cleveland, Ohio, May 29, 2007.
Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Revitalizing America’s Older Industrial Cities
The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
http://www3.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20070520_oic.pdf
Restoring Prosperity:
The State role in Revitalizing America’s Older Industrial Cities
The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
http://www3.brookings.edu/metro/pubs/20070520_oicOH.pdf
States and Their Cities
Partnerships for the Future
Prepared for the Fannie Mae Foundation by the George
Washington Institute of Public Policy at George Washington
University, and Cleveland State University’s Office of Economic
Development
http://content.knowledgeplex.org/kp2/cache/documents/2366/236675.pdf
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