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Bruce Katz, a director of the Brookings Institution, tells several hundred planners and businessmen at the Grow Smart Rhode Island conference today that the nation's economic future is in its cities.

PROVIDENCE -- More than 400 planners, government officials and business people attended the Power of Place Summit today at the Rhode Island Convention Center by Grow Smart Rhode Island, the anti-sprawl group.

Bruce Katz, director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, told the audience that the nation’s cities are the key to its prosperity, and a new federal partnership needs to be formed to help strengthen city economies and create a strong, well-educated workforce

Patrick MacRoy, executive director of the Alliance for Healthy Homes, called on planners and city officials to make local populations healthier by encouraging clean, walkable cities.

-- Journal environmental writer Peter B. Lord

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