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New forms of civic leadership are emerging in cities across the country – leadership that emphasizes longer-term holistic community visions, multi-sectoral collaboration, and civic engagement. Under this evolving reality, urban and community change is reframed as an iterative process of learning-by-doing through experimentation, reflection, and innovation.

In their path-breaking book The New Localism, Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak convincingly argue that urban communities constitute “the twenty-first century’s means of solving the problems characteristic of modern