Recent Publications
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As of January 2012, the accompanying volume for the "Legacy Cities" Assembly was available on Amazon.com. "Rebuilding America's Legacy Cities: New Directions for the Industrial Heartland," features chapters by thirteen national and international leaders and thinkers on urban policy and is a much needed addition to the land use and urban policy world.

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2011
Author(s) Joe Karaganis

"Copy Culture in the US and Germany" is survey-based study designed to bring public opinion to bear on vital policy conversation about the future of the Internet. The study explores what Americans and Germans do with digital media, what they want to do, and how they reconcile their attitudes and values with different policies and proposals to enforce copyright online.

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2011
Author(s) Global Congress on Intellectual Policy and the Public Interest

The Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest convened over 180 international experts to help re-articulate the public interest dimension in intellectual property law and policy.


The Congress concluded that international intellectual property policy affects a broad range of interests within society, not just those of rights holders. Thus, intellectual property policy making should be conducted through mechanisms of transparency and openness that encourage broad public participation.

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Recommendations included using market-driven development strategies to focus on stronger neighborhoods while more economically challenged areas are employed for more passive interim uses that require little public investment. Land banks and supportive partnerships among federal, state, and local governments also figured prominently in the discussions.

Access the report here.

 

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2011
Author(s) Joe Karaganis, Editor

Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is the first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia.

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Three one-day meetings held at the Meridian International Center in Washington, DC in late 2009 and 2010 and co-sponsored with the Center for a New American Security addressed the topics of “Obama – One Year Later," "U.S. Global Policy: Challenges to Building a 21st Century Grand Strategy,” and “Technology, Finance, Innovation, and U.S. Global Policy.”  The three white papers from the three meetings were combined into one document.

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2010
Author(s) Angela Glover Blackwell

Even after the election of America's first black president, racial inequality continues to plague the nation. Barack Obama's election ushered in a new era of hope, but measurable racial change is still elusive: We still fail to graduate more than one-quarter of young black men from high school, and nearly a third of all African American, Latino, and Southeast Asian American children live in poverty. BY 2050, the United States is projected to be a nation with no single racial group as a majority.

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Nearly two years after the onset of the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression, governments around the world sought both better regu
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The culminating report of The Next Generation Project series.

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2008
Editor(s) Richard M. McGahey, Jennifer S. Vey

Slow job growth, declining home values, a diminishing tax base, and concentrated poverty are but a few of the growing obstacles for well-established but struggling cities. Challenged by decades of globalization, technological change, and dramatic demographic shifts away from the urban core, these former industrial powerhouses—particularly in the Northeast and Midwest—have been eclipsed by burgeoning American cities with a viable niche in the new economy.

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Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America's Future
Published in 2010, this wide-ranging, pragmatic, and in-depth volume covers the persistently divisive issues surrounding race in America, with contributions from Angela Blackwell, Stewart Kwoh, Manuel Pastor, Van Jones and Allen Crouch, among others. The authors address evolving and emerging topics such as the future of work and metropolitan communities, immigrant integration, and effective educational structures.