Tackling Things at a Level of Complexity

Posted by Carol Coletta on February 13, 2009

NYU President John Sexton is introducing Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin and he had a lovely phrase about Judith, "She engineered a marriage between her university and her city."  He was speaking, of course, about her work at Penn which has inspired so many college presidents and urban leaders.  That work will be central to our upcoming discussion in San Diego, with conversations led by Dave Egner and Katy Locker who have launched a transformation of Detroit's downtown and Midtown from their vantage point at the Hudson-Webber Foundation in collaboration with many of Detroit's venerable anchors and by Chris Roynane in Cleveland's University Circle.

--- from the Furman Center, Housing Policy Conference