Blueprint for American Prosperity: Unleashing the Potential of a Metropolitan Nation.

To improve the partnership between the nation’s metropolitan areas and government, it is argued the U.S. federal government needs to lead where it can and must – in areas of national visioning and policies that, being aligned with the necessary scalable investments, can produce a tremendous impact.

Priority issues for reform that will be addressed by the Blueprint in subsequent reports include boosting innovation and productivity, enacting urban school reform, attaining higher levels of educational attainment, improving transportation linkages between and within metro areas, increasing the supply of workforce housing, and improving the energy efficiency of the nation’s housing.

Full Paper: http://www.brookings.edu/projects/blueprint.aspx