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Columbia UniversitySchool of International and Public Affairs

Global Urban Policy and Development

Metropolitan Economic Strategy:Prosperity, Innovation, Sustainability, and Inclusiveness

Dr. Marc A. Weiss

Chairman and CEO, Global Urban Developmentand

Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

February 23, 2012

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Urban Development and Economic Prosperity

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Prague, Czech Republic

Population: 1.2 million

10% of national population

15% of national workforce

>20% of national GDP

>50% of national tourist revenue

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“NEW ECONOMY” OF THE 21ST CENTURY:

• Knowledge and Information-Based

• Technology and Communications-Intensive

• Globally Oriented

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Why Urban Areas are More Economically Productive

They combine SPECIALIZATION and DIVERSITY:• the critical mass of skills and resources;• the necessary population density and concentration of market

incomes; • the range of specialized knowledge and institutions; • the wide diversity of vitally needed facilities and services; • and the fully developed physical and human infrastructure that

are prerequisites for new ideas, products and production methods, technological and organizational innovations, and dynamic economic growth and investment.

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KEY ECONOMIC ROLES FOR CENTRAL CITIESAND URBAN REGIONS

• centers of innovation and services, including advanced and highly specialized services

• centers of communication, culture, sports, entertainment, conventions, and tourism

• centers of education, research, and health care• centers of transportation and trade• centers of manufacturing and technology development• market centers• workforce centers

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Clinton Administration Metropolitan Economic StrategyNational Policy Initiative

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METROPOLITAN ECONOMIC STRATEGY

TWO TYPES OF MOTIVATION

Crisis: Barcelona, Akron

Opportunity: Shanghai, Austin

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Investing in Fundamental Assets and Building Dynamic Industry Networks

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A good economic strategy consists of two key elements:

1) building from strength — investing in the fundamental assets and activities that make people more productive and places more valuable;

2) generating dynamism — promoting modern, globally competitive industry networks that accelerate the pace of innovation and growth.

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PEOPLE are the most vital economic asset in the worldINVESTING IN FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMIC ASSETS:

– Transportation– Infrastructure– Education– Workforce Development– Research– Technology– Markets– Capital– Health– Safety– Environment and Amenities– Culture– Quality of Life

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1996 HUD METROPOLITAN ECONOMIC STRATEGY REPORT

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1998 WASHINGTON, DC ECONOMIC PLANINDUSTRY NETWORKS

• Business/Professional/Financial/Association Services• Hospitality/Entertainment/Tourism/Specialty Retail• Universities/Educational/Research Institutions• Biomedical Research/Health Services• Media/Publications• Information Technology/Telecommunications

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1998 WASHINGTON, DC ECONOMIC PLAN3-PART STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK

STRATEGIC INDUSTRIES• Industry Networks• Growing Businesses and Jobs across the Private Sector

STRATEGIC POPULATIONS• Workforce Development• Attracting and Retaining Residents

STRATEGIC AREAS• Downtown• Neighborhoods

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KEY LESSONS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LESSON 1: THINK AND ACT STRATEGICALLYLESSON 2: CREATE COMMON IDENTITY AND SENSE OF PURPOSELESSON 3: INVOLVE EVERYONELESSON 4: TAKE ACTION AND PRODUCE RESULTSLESSON 5: BUILD ON THE FUNDAMENTALSLESSON 6: FOCUS ON THE BIG RESOURCESLESSON 7: BE YOURSELFLESSON 8: COLLABORATE WITH AND SUPPORT THE PRIVATE SECTORLESSON 9: BE COMPREHENSIVE – LINK GROWTH OF BUSINESSES,

JOBS, AND INCOMES TO PEOPLE AND PLACESLESSON 10: CONNECT TO THE DYNAMICS OF THE REGIONAL ECONOMYLESSON 11: WORK WITH AND STRENGTHEN CIVIL SOCIETYLESSON 12: IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE – SUSTAINABILITY AND

INCLUSIVENESS

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PROTECTING AND SUSTAINING THE PHYSICAL ANDNATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF URBAN REGIONS

TO PRESERVE AND ENHANCE QUALITY OF LIFE

• encouraging energy efficiency and resource conservation; • improving clean air and conserving clean water; • cleaning up and redeveloping toxic and polluted “brownfield” land;• renovating historic structures and investing in urban cultural heritage; • maintaining the beauty of natural landscapes and preserving agricultural land;• increasing the accessibility of biking and hiking pathways and open spaces; • curbing metropolitan sprawl and traffic congestion;• reinvesting in older towns, cities, and inner-ring suburbs; • expanding transit and other pedestrian and public transportation alternatives; • promoting ecological and heritage tourism;• developing parks and recreational amenities; • developing “green” buildings, infrastructure, and communities; • increasing recycling and the use of renewable energy sources; • reducing greenhouse gas emissions; • strengthening community planning and design.

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“Over the long term, places with strong, distinctive identities are more likely to prosper than places without them. Every place must identify its strongest, most distinctive features and develop them or run the risk of being all things to all persons and nothing special to any…Livability is not a middle class luxury. It is an economic imperative.”

MIT Economics Professor Robert M. SolowWinner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

The Economic Value of Quality of Life

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From the California Commission on Industrial Innovation to Green Innovation and Clean Technology

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Per Capita Electricity Sales (not including self-generation)(kWh/person) (2006 to 2008 are forecast data)

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Per Capita Income in Constant 2000 $1975 2005 % change

US GDP/capita 16,241 31,442 94%Cal GSP/capita 18,760 33,536 79%

2005 Differences = 5,300kWh/yr = $165/capita

Source: Energy Efficiency: The first and most profitable way to delay Climate ChangeUCLA Institute of the Environment Oppenheim Lecture February 25, 2008

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California’s $56 Billion Green Savings

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Economic Development Strategy for Berkeley, CaliforniaJune 1981

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Source: 1996 HUD Metropolitan Economic Strategy Report

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THE VALUE OF INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

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Cape Town, South Africa: “Our Golden Thread”

“It is not a question of choosing global competitiveness or the reduction of poverty — Cape Town will achieve both or

neither. Reducing poverty will strengthen global competitiveness, and global competitiveness will permit reduction of poverty through economic growth and job

creation.”

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An old adage states: “Give a person a fish, and he or she will eat for a day. Teach a person to fish, and he or she can eat for a lifetime.” Public policies for reducing poverty reflect these two approaches, providing either subsidies or training. But what if most low-income people are already “fishing” by working diligently to produce and distribute goods and services, yet they simply are not earning enough? If this is the real problem, then it calls for comprehensive solutions based on “Inclusive Economic Development Strategies” with mainstream society actively supporting the efforts of low-income people to enhance their incomes, productive capabilities, and entrepreneurial opportunities. Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI) is launching the Community Productivity Project (CPP) together with the United Nations and Global Urban Development, an international non-profit organization founded on the principle of “Treating People and Communities as Assets.” The CPP is designed to establish a new policy paradigm by documenting how productive low-income people are, how hard they work, how much value they create, and the close relationships of their economic activities to the formal economic system.

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TREATING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES AS ASSETS:THE COMMUNITY PRODUCTIVITY PROJECT (CPP)

POVERTY REDUCTION THROUGH INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Credit: Shack/Slum Dwellers International

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METROPOLITAN ECONOMIC STRATEGY:

Evolution and Internationalization of the

Strategic Policy Framework

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Metropolitan Economic Strategy in Brazil

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Belo Horizonte

Curitiba

Porto Alegre

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UN WUF session

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“Getting Richer by Becoming Greener”

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Sustainable Economic Development Strategies generate substantial economic and employment growth and sustainable business and community development by demonstrating that

innovation, efficiency, and conservation in the use and reuse of all natural and human resources is the best way to increase jobs,

incomes, productivity, and competitiveness.

In addition, Sustainable Economic Development Strategies are the most cost-effective method of promoting renewable energy

and clean technologies, protecting the environment, and preventing harmful impacts from climate change.

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Sustainable Development

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Sustainability in Business

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Sustainability: From Companies to Communities

• Sustainable Economic Development Strategies adapt sustainability concepts from leading businesses such as:

GE, IBM, Toyota, Interface, IKEA, DuPont, Disney, Wal-Mart, Google, Nike, Stonyfield Farm, Seventh Generation, Siemens,

Cisco, Philips, Applied Materials, and Johnson Controls

• Sustainable Economic Development Strategies apply these sustainability concepts to sub-national economies, including:

States, Provinces, Regions, Districts, Counties, Cities, Towns, Villages, and Neighborhoods

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The Four Greens• Green Savings — cutting costs for businesses, families, communities,

and governments by efficiently using renewable resources and by reducing and reusing waste

• Green Opportunities — growing jobs and incomes through business development and expanding markets for resource efficiency, sustainability, and clean technologies

• Green Talent — investing in fundamental assets such as education, research, technological innovation, and modern entrepreneurial and workforce skills, because people are now the world’s most vital green economic resource

• Green Places — establishing sustainable transportation and infrastructure, and protecting and enhancing the natural and built environment, to create more attractive, livable, healthy, vibrant, prosperous, productive, and resource-efficient areas and communities.

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Green Savings(Pathways to a Low-Carbon Economy, McKinsey & Company, 2009)

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$3.3 Trillion Global Business Investment in Green Opportunities since 2007

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www.greentransitionscoreboard.com

GREEN TRANSITION SCOREBOARD®

More than $3.3 trillion has already been invested by the private sector in sustainable companies and technologies globally since 2007.

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Types of Sustainable BusinessesClean Tech Businesses Green Businesses

Develop and market environmental products and services that are resource

efficient and benefit the environment

Manage their business enterprises in ways that are

resource efficient and benefit the environment

• Clean Energy Sources• Energy Efficiency• Green Production Practices• Pollution Mitigation,

Conservation, and Restoration• Support Services

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Clean Tech Businesses

Category Description SegmentsClean Energy Sources

The production, storage and distribution of safe, renewable sources.

§ Green energy generation (solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and biofuels)

§ Energy storage§ Energy infrastructure

Energy Efficiency Technologies and services that reduce the amount of energy consumed by different sectors of the economy.

§ Building energy efficiency§ Appliances and controls§ Energy management

Green Production Practices

Enterprises that produce products and services or use production practices that reduce the consumption of natural resources.

§ Transportation and logistics§ Manufacturing and industrial§ Materials and nano-technologies§ Green construction§ Agriculture

Pollution Mitigation, Conservation, and Restoration

Enterprises and technologies focused on reducing pollution or conserving and restoring natural ecologies.

§ Water and wastewater§ Air and environment§ Materials recovery and recycling

Support Services Consulting and other services that help enterprises develop and implement green and clean technologies.

§ Advocacy and policy§ Green business consulting§ Green finance§ Research and development§ Education

There are several ways in which people are beginning to segment the sub-sectors of Clean Tech Businesses.

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Eco-Smart Development Principles• Livable Communities: mixed-use, walkable, and human scale• Green Energy: solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass• Resource Efficiency: conserving energy and materials, and reducing or

eliminating all forms of waste

• Climate Action: reducing/eliminating greenhouse gas emissions• Sustainable Business: promoting Clean Tech and Green Business• Smart: using IT and Broadband for smart infrastructure with smart buildings

connected by a smart grid• Ecological: environmental preservation and restoration with preservation

zones, green ways, parks, & lakes • Multi-Modal Transportation: pedestrians, bicycles, public transit, private

vehicles powered by electricity and biofuels• Low-Impact: retaining native vegetation and soils, rainwater harvesting,

pervious pavement, and bio-retention• Bio-Regional: connecting local organic agriculture with urban consumption

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Strategy Creation

Each place is unique. A strategy cannot be mechanically imposed. Rather it must grow out of the special conditions and the dynamic trajectory of each place.

1. A Strategic Assessment and Opportunity Analysis of the area-wide economy, to identify its current direction, its strengths and weaknesses, and the opportunities and challenges for Sustainable Economic Development.

2. Design of a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy that builds on the momentum that already exists and weaves together a set of Sustainability Initiatives to create a clear, coherent, easily understood, dynamic strategy, with a strong business model.

3. Formulation of an Implementation Plan – including a system for monitoring progress – that addresses who is responsible for each Initiative, the timeline and milestones, the costs, the sources of potential revenues, and the processes for mid-course corrections.

4. Initiation and, subsequently, full implementation of the Strategy and Implementation Plan.

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Leadership Structure

Typically, the leadership structure for a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy includes three elements:

1.A Leadership Group, which is usually a pre-existing local or regional organization that has committed to lead the effort.

2.A Decision-Making Council, made up of the key leaders from a variety of different organizations, who are guiding the creation and implementation of the Strategy.

3.A broader Stakeholder Advisory Group, composed of the full range of public, private, and civic stakeholders supporting the Sustainable Economic Development Strategy, who are advising the process.

Examples of Stakeholder Participants

Political leadership (Mayor’s office; County Commissioners)Economic Development OrganizationsCommunity-Based OrganizationsBusiness LeadershipInvestors (banks; Angel/Seed capital networks; venture funds)Education (K-12; community colleges; universities)Workforce DevelopmentR&D InstitutionsRegional Planning Organizations.Unions

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Elements of a Strategy A strategy can include:

• Purpose. Overall rationale including assumptions about how improved environmental performance can be linked to wealth creation.

• Vision. Vision for how your city/region can play a distinctive role in the emerging sustainable economy, including hypothesis about where your distinctive advantages lie, and where your best opportunities are.

• Focus. The theme or themes that tie the different elements of the strategy together.

• Initiatives. The key Initiatives that will be undertaken.

• Measures. How you will measure success.

• Implementation. How implementation details will be developed, and where people go to get more information on each strategy.

Characteristics of a Good Strategy Document

•Short enough that people will want to read it.

•Relatively simple, straightforward and easy to understand.

•Provides a strong unifying theme for multiple strategies.

•Lays out a limited number of Initiatives with clear success metrics.

•Connects to peoples’ inherent sense of the place and its history and heritage.

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Prosperity in Paradise:Growing the Sarasota County Sustainable

Economy

Recommendations

Global Urban Development TeamApril 14, 2011

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Three Important National TrendsThe Rise Of Location-

neutral Knowledge

Work

The Growth Of “Neveretirees”

Green and Clean Tech Business Markets

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The Differentiation Opportunity

Sub-Tropical Vacation & Retirement “Paradise”

Art and Design – “Culture

Coast”

High Growth Entrepreneur

Energy

“PROSPERITY IN

PARADISE”

Attract, Retain & Support Clean Tech and Green Entrepreneurs

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Prosperity in Paradise: Summary Strategy Map

MissionTo create jobs by positioning

Sarasota County as a location of choice for Clean Tech and Green Businesses and Eco-Smart Real

Estate Development.

VisionThe Sarasota County region is

recognized as a premier location for starting and growing Clean

Tech and Green Businesses and Eco-Smart Real Estate

Developments, especially for second-career entrepreneurs and

developers.

Context

•Historical reliance on tourism & construction•New to diversified economic development•Historic perception of an unfriendly business climate•Need for political consensus•Some good recent progress with EDC plan and incentives

Strategic Assumptions

•There is an authentic sustainability branding

opportunity

•It is about attracting entrepreneurial talent

•Some catching up to do on the basics

•Good assets to build on

•Will require political consensus and will

•Have to be in for the long haul

Recommendations1.Initiate a Business Development Network

2.Expand the Green Business Partnership

3.Establish a Clean Tech Support Infrastructure

4.Launch a Green Energy/Resource Recovery Park

5.Innovate Eco-Smart Development in the EEZ and Elsewhere

6.Organize a Green Talent Response System

7.Formulate a Communications Strategy

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Southwest Florida Climate Prosperity Strategy

Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council

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NoMa:A SUCCESSFUL EXAMPLE OF

METROPOLITAN ECONOMIC STRATEGY

(North of Massachusetts Avenue)Washington, DC

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NoMa Metro Station

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1998 WASHINGTON, DC ECONOMIC PLAN

NoMa

ACTION 26: Develop NoMa as a Technology, Media, Housing, and Arts District

ACTION 29: Build a Metro Station at New York Avenue to Spur Development

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NoMa’s Fundamental Assets in 1998

• Centrality of Location/Regional Accessibility• Rail Infrastructure• Large Development Sites• Industrial Loft-Style Buildings• Broadband Fiber Optic Cable• Washington, DC as a Global Media Center• IT and Telecom in Metropolitan Washington• Urban Multimedia Arts/Tech Lifestyle

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NoMa’s New Fundamental AssetsGetting Richer by Becoming Greener

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• Compact• High-Density• Resource-Efficient• Transit-Oriented• Walkable• Bicycle-Friendly

• Mixed-Use• Green/LEED Buildings• Broadband Infrastructure• Smart Growth• New Urbanism• Livable Community

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For more information,

please visit the GUD website:www.globalurban.org

email me at:[email protected]

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