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A Post-COVID Playbook For Recovery for Texas

Texas needs a post-COVID playbook to achieve a full, equitable recovery for all Texans.

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Managing America’s Second Fastest-Growing City

What are the challenges of managing America’s second fastest-growing city? Steven Pedigo interviews San Antonio City Manager Sheryl Sculley.

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Exploring America’s Best Cities

The Best Cities Podcast, hosted by Chris Fair and Steven Pedigo, explores America’s best cities.

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The Future of Our Towns and Free Speech

LBJ Professor Steven Pedigo interviews James Fallows about his book Our Towns and the future of free speech in cities and on college campuses.

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Texas Universities Team Up to Create Post-Pandemic Plan

Two Texas anchors, the University of Texas and the University of Houston, step up to help the state strategize about its future.

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The Contactless City

How will the future of a “contactless city” shape how we live, work and play? How will we create community in the future?

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The Death and Life of Cities

Steven Pedigo interviews urbanists Richard Florida and Joel Kotkin about the future of cities and their suburbs at the 2020 Texas Tribune Festival.

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After COVID-19: How America’s communities can build back better

As painful as this year has been, it has given us an incredible opportunity to remake our cities and towns.

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Toward a More Inclusive and Resilient Economic Development Paradigm

The ultimate challenge is to make our communities stronger, more resilient, and more equitable.

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Resiliency in the Age of COVID-19: A Policy Toolkit

This toolkit will help policymakers put the issue of equitable, resilient  community development back on the national agenda.

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