Metro Blueprint

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On Metro Blueprint from the Brookings Institution, Brookings Metro scholars and their guests discuss ideas and actions to create more prosperous, just, and resilient communities in America.

Episodes

  1. 07/30/2025

    How local leaders and communities are leading the transition to clean energy

    In this episode of Metro Blueprint, Xavier de Souza Briggs, senior fellow at Brookings Metro, Melanie Allen, founding co-director of the Hive Fund, and Robert "R.J." McGrail, director of the Accelerating Community Investment initiative at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, discuss how federal policy affects our energy future and what it will take to bring affordable and resilient energy to everyone. Transcript and show notes. Metro Blueprint is part of the Brookings Podcast Network. Subscribe and listen wherever you listen to podcasts. Send feedback to podcasts@brookings.edu.

    43 min

  2. 07/16/2025

    Workers must have a seat at the AI bargaining table

    In this episode of Metro Blueprint, experts explain the importance of including workers' voices in conversations that shape how AI is used and regulated. Molly Kinder, senior fellow at Brookings Metro, and Christy Hoffman, general secretary of the UNI Global Union, discuss how unions can protect workers from displacement as a result of companies using generative AI. Transcript and show notes. Metro Blueprint is part of the Brookings Podcast Network. Subscribe and listen wherever you listen to podcasts. Send feedback to podcasts@brookings.edu.

    26 min

  3. 07/02/2025

    How federal funding cuts impact Tribal communities

    In this episode of Metro Blueprint, experts examine the challenges Indian Country is facing due to the disruption in federal funding. Robert Maxim, fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Allison Neswood, senior staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund, discuss what these cuts mean to Native communities—and why non-Native audiences should pay attention. Transcript and show notes. Metro Blueprint is part of the Brookings Podcast Network. Subscribe and listen wherever you listen to podcasts. Send feedback to podcasts@brookings.edu.

    35 min

  4. 06/18/2025

    How can policymakers help communities left behind by globalization and automation?

    In this episode of Metro Blueprint, experts discuss ways to address the regional economic consequences of globalization. Mark Muro, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Gordon Hanson, the Wertheim Professor of Urban Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, explain how place-based industrial policy can help struggling Heartland economies. Transcript and show notes. Metro Blueprint is part of the Brookings Podcast Network. Subscribe and listen wherever you listen to podcasts. Send feedback to podcasts@brookings.edu.

    24 min

  5. 06/04/2025

    Will New York's congestion pricing program pave the way for broader adoption?

    In this episode, experts explore how New York City created a successful congestion pricing plan that has so far reduced traffic and increased transit ridership while retaining a bustling downtown. Adie Tomer, senior fellow at Brookings Metro, and Polly Trottenberg, former U.S. Department of Transportation deputy secretary and former commissioner of New York City's transportation department, explain how other cities can use New York as a blueprint to implement their own congestion pricing policies. Transcript and show notes. Metro Blueprint is part of the Brookings Podcast Network. Subscribe and listen wherever you listen to podcasts. Send feedback to podcasts@brookings.edu.

    27 min

  6. 05/21/2025

    St. Louis shows how cities can break the "urban doom loop"

    In this episode of Metro Blueprint, experts take a deep dive into how St. Louis is using office-to-residential conversions to build affordable housing and a vibrant downtown. Tracy Hadden Loh, a fellow at Brookings, and Kurt Weigle, senior vice president and chief downtown officer at Greater St. Louis, explain how cities can look to St. Louis as a model for redeveloping their own downtowns. Transcript and show notes. Metro Blueprint is part of the Brookings Podcast Network. Subscribe and listen wherever you listen to podcasts. Send feedback to podcasts@brookings.edu.

    26 min

  7. 05/07/2025

    L.A. fires expose long-standing local and national water infrastructure challenges

    In this episode of Metro Blueprint, experts discuss how the catastrophic fires in Los Angeles exposed long-standing challenges in water utility systems in Southern California and beyond. Joe Kane, fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Greg Pierce, the research and co-executive director of UCLA's Luskin Center for Innovation, explain how policymakers can improve these systems amid a more extreme and destructive climate.   Transcript and show notes. Metro Blueprint is part of the Brookings Podcast Network. Subscribe and listen wherever you listen to podcasts. Send feedback to podcasts@brookings.edu.

    27 min

  8. 04/23/2025

    What are the economic and legal implications of President Trump's DEI and LGBTQIA executive orders?

    In this first episode of Metro Blueprint, experts discuss how efforts to weaken DEI protections result in taking away resources from people who deserve them. Andre Perry, a senior fellow at Brookings Metro and director of its Center for Community Uplift, along with Stacy Hawkins, a professor at Rutgers Law School and a Brookings nonresident senior fellow, explain how Black Americans can still achieve economic growth despite these efforts.  Transcript and show notes. Metro Blueprint is part of the Brookings Podcast Network. Subscribe and listen wherever you listen to podcasts. Send feedback to podcasts@brookings.edu.

    24 min

  9. 04/15/2025

    Introducing Metro Blueprint, a new podcast about ideas and actions to create more prosperous, just, and resilient communities in America

    Metro Blueprint is a new podcast from the Brookings Institution about ideas and actions to create more prosperous, just, and resilient communities in America. Every two weeks a different Brookings Metro scholar and a guest will discuss research findings and policy actions to improve the well-being of people and their communities. Topics will include economic and workforce development, climate and the built environment, changing demographics, place-based policymaking, the future of work in the age of artificial intelligence, and much more.  Subscribe now to Metro Blueprint on your favorite podcast app, or find us on Apple or Spotify to start getting new episodes when they are published.

    1 min

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On Metro Blueprint from the Brookings Institution, Brookings Metro scholars and their guests discuss ideas and actions to create more prosperous, just, and resilient communities in America.

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