27 Quotes by Bruce Katz

There is, of course, a deep irony in the fact that technology, which was supposed to cut the ties between people and places and allow people everywhere to work from almost anywhere, turns out to flourish in fairly compact geographic locations.

The many governments within a single metropolitan area are almost designed to fight among themselves because state law makes them largely dependent on locally raised tax revenues...People, pies, cars, rails, and the nebulous entity known as the economy might flow seamlessly across local boundaries, but sales and property tax dollars rarely do.

Many of us are somewhat bewildered by this because we know how to relocate people fairly rapidly to decent housing.

Many of us are somewhat bewildered by this, because we know how to relocate people fairly rapidly to decent housing.

Politically, they are less than the sum of their parts.

Bunching poor people together in the same neighborhood has enormous implications for education, business investment and the health of families, ... The issue in New Orleans is not only about rebuilding a great American city, but it's also about undoing 50 years of mistakes of federal housing policy.

I find fun in putting myself into someone else's frame of mind, ... I try to be creative but I'm also thinking that it's their vision, I'm able to put myself in their space as opposed to just being me and doing whatever it is that I want.

Kids who are sunburned early on in life have a greater risk of developing cancer in general of the skin.

just replicate the social patterns that existed before the hurricane in a new location ... a hyper-concentration of poverty where people did not have easy access to good schools and quality jobs.