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      • Cities & Communities
        • Mayors’ lessons on leading an urban comeback
        • Strengthening Leaders and Cities
        • Samantha Beck MPP 2022: Improving government service delivery in Boise, Idaho
        • Pablo Uribe MPA 2022: Tackling gun violence at home and abroad
        • Earning trust: Baltimore’s lessons in public innovation
        • How can AI affect productivity in public service delivery
        • An HKS field lab works with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to help push critical legislation across the finish line
        • Phillip Jones MPP/MBA 2021: Innovating city hall
        • Cash benefits changed the way people in a low-income community used the health system, new study finds
        • Centralization trend in global urban transportation systems can yield data to help make those systems more efficient and popular
        • Nicolas Diaz MPP 2020: Creating better access to data
        • An HKS field lab evaluates a car-free street policy for Boston
        • Media narratives have generally blamed Democrats for housing crises in cities. Research suggests that is not the full story.
        • Anthony Foxx: Pushing cities and the technology community to think about how to help solve public problems
        • When proposing redevelopment ideas for an abandoned 95-acre city parcel, seeing is believing.
        • City innovation expert James Anderson discusses the power of mayors and cities to bring new ideas to life.
        • Advancing progress in cities around the globe
        • How HKS is making a difference in these three cities
        • State champions: Hilary Norton MPP 1992 is making commuting more accessible and equitable in California
        • HKS’s Greater Boston Applied Field Lab investigates inclusionary zoning as a tool to increase affordable housing
        • Chelsea Eats: Studying an experimental solution to food insecurity in a hard-hit Massachusetts city
        • How Harvard Kennedy School is helping families stay together
        • HKS Transition Term students assist Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval following his historic election
        • A greener, brighter future
        • Professor Jorrit de Jong is working at the service of cities
        • Polly Trottenberg MPP 1992 is working toward a transportation transformation
        • Smarter Cities
        • Laying the foundation for the next generation of civic leaders
        • HKS helps Saint Paul Minnesota emphasize the ‘public’ in public safety
        • Should public transit be free? Experts weigh in at an HKS-hosted debate.
        • A unique opportunity puts HKS students front and center in Boston government
        • New Metroverse tool helps municipal planners, policymakers, and businesses identify opportunities for economic development
        • About the Civic Analytics Network
        • Big data makes better cities
        • Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
        • Boston Commuter Rail connection gets a new price tag
        • Car economy costs $64 billion a year in Mass.
        • Cities as innovation labs
        • Creating cities to be spaces for voice and influence
        • Experiencing innovation
        • Five actions state and local leaders can take to prepare for autonomous vehicles
        • Gambling with housing: Paper examines the history of booms and busts
        • Graduate students get hands-on experience with state and local government
        • Growing demand and tight supply are raising home prices
        • HKS Footprint: Cities
        • HKS Transition Term: Experiential learning from the inside out
        • Helping mayors reckon with troubling legacies
        • Leadership on the front line: Mayors get crisis response lessons from Harvard experts
        • New Orleans mayor-elect LaToya Cantrell played leading role in Broadmoor Project
        • On the Ground
        • Q&A with Justin de Benedictis-Kessner: Helping local governments, where society’s burdens increasingly fall
        • Reinventing the wheel
        • Teaching mayors to lead through COVID-19
        • The capacity to solve: How public and private can work together to revitalize a city
        • The high cost of free roads: Q&A with Linda Bilmes and Stevie Olsen

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