Bruce Katz of the Brookings Institution makes a compelling argument that new policies are needed globally and nationally for a spiky world centered around city-regions. "Before the international Urban Age conference in Berlin, Bruce Katz argued that if cities are the organizing units of the new global order, then a
broad range of policies and practices at the city, national, and supra-national levels need to be reevaluated and overhauled around new spatial realities and paradigms." A PDF of the entire speech is here.
