The Urban Policy Series aims to catalyze fresh thinking and generate new knowledge. The health — and future — of our cities require it.
Cities matter to the Manhattan Institute.
We have long been committed to staying at the forefront of urban-policy innovation. Since 2014, the Manhattan Institute’s “Urban Policy Series” has brought together experts from around the country to shape the future of urban America. From housing to transportation and regulation to urban planning, we have developed nationally-relevant policy solutions grounded in unique local experiences.
The Urban Policy Series brings practical ideas to the table for public, private, and nonprofit leaders to shape and share. More than two dozen salon dinners and hundreds of expert voices later, the Series’ signature books have gathered together the best ideas in urban policy. The partnership between our scholars and other leading academics and practitioners have allowed us to commission these volumes, which speak directly to some of the biggest challenges that U.S. cities now face.
The Urban Policy Series aims to catalyze fresh thinking and generate new knowledge. The health — and future — of our cities require it.
Urban Policy Series 2019 |
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Housing ladders, precision policing, the do's and don'ts of city branding - plus homeless shelters, business permitting, and more
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New thinking about how to improve housing, transportation, child welfare, and policing.
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How Social Media, Markets, and Regulatory Innovation Can Make America's Cities More Liveable
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 The Next Urban Renaissance How Public-Policy Innovation and Evaluation Can Improve Life in America's Cities
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Highlights
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October 2014
Harvard economist and Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Ed Glaeser kicks off the Urban Policy Series with a paper on entrepreneurship zones.
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March 2016
Reason Foundation co-founder Robert Poole leads a discussion of his proposal to reform the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, with the Authority’s executive director and the New York area’s leading infrastructure scholars.
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May 2016
Donald Shoup, an urban planner and economist at UCLA, and the world’s foremost expert on parking, presents a paper on reforming New York’s parking system to the city’s highest-ranking transportation officials.
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April 2017
Mark Ginsburg, principal architect of Curtis + Ginsburg LLP, one of New York’s leading architecture firms, delivers a proposal to address housing affordability through innovative micro-units.
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March 2018
Former NYPD Commissioner William Bratton and co-author Jon Murad lay out their vision for the future of urban policing, drawing from MI’s Broken Windows theory and Commissioner Bratton’s decades of experience in the field.
