"Cities and metropolitan areas are the engines of the economy," said Bruce Katz, founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution.
Without a new national commitment to revive the old metropolitan centers as key engines of economic growth, culture, and national civic culture, our resurgence will be more difficult.
"Cities are no longer the whole engine of the metropolitan area," said Mr. Frey.
In April 2004, he and some colleagues flew two single-engine airplanes over metropolitan Los Angeles with two wireless laptops.
Developer Enos Stanley Kroenke, sports mogul, Walton family son-in-law, and sprawl-developer, was actually paid more than $7 million in public funds to bring low-wage jobs to this community which describes itself as the "strong and viable economic engine for the St . Louismetropolitan area".
But the real engine of the economy is metropolitan São Paulo, which in the last 130 years has had "the fastest long-term rate of big-city growth in human experience," said Norman Gall, executive director of the Fernand Braudel Institute of World Economics here.
The video shows a massive virtual city filled with towering skyscrapers, parks, user-customized apartments and houses, public meeting places, subways, and everything else you might expect in a metropolitan area, all beautifully rendered by the OTOY engine.
CUNY has the potential to be the engine driving the economic development of the metropolitan region by applying its intellectual capital to stimulate growth in technology and by offering educational opportunities tailor-made to accommodate the needs of potential workers and the existing work force in the new economy.
With the metropolitan areas of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, this region is the economic engine of the country.
While Blue Apron requires an aggressive marketing engine — especially as it tries to expand beyond metropolitan areas, which are probably its sweet spot — still seems primed for a product that could grow organically.
