Environment

Current Projects
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Revitalizing the Legacy Cities of Upstate New York
In February 2013, The American Assembly released Revitalizing the Legacy Cities of Upstate New York—a report documenting revitalization strategies for upstate cities, based on a recent Assembly-sponsored meeting of urban policy and economic development experts. The report emphasizes several ...
Past Projects
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Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared Leadership
This 1990 project co-sponsored by the World Resources Institute focuses on global environmental issues, including population growth, deforestation, species loss, the ozone layer, energy, climate change, economic policies, and implications for U.S. policy.  The report from the April 1990 A...
Publications
Preserving the Global Environment
This stimulating collection from a 1990 project co-sponsored by the World Resources Institute focuses on global environmental issues, including population growth, deforestation, species loss, the ozone layer, energy, climate change, economic policies, and implications for U.S. policy. A te...
Preserving the Global Environment: The Challenge of Shared Leadership
The report from this 1990 Assembly  focuses on global environmental issues, including population growth, deforestation, species loss, the ozone layer, energy, climate change, economic policies, and implications for U.S. policy.  The report calls for a halt to the buildup of greenhouse gase...
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Reinventing America's Legacy Cities

Henry Cisneros, American Assembly trustee and twenty-year veteran of Assembly urban affairs work, says of the Legacy Cities meeting in Detroit:

"...All of us who participated were motivated by our desire to arrest the deterioration of the hardest hit cities and to improve the quality of life for the people who reside in them.  I believe we laid out a reasonable path."