The Metropolitan Revolution Quotes

“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.”
― Bruce Katz, The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

“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.”
― Bruce Katz, The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy