Event Title
Panel #3 - Reconsidering Cities and Counties for the 21st Century
Start Date
25-2-2016 4:15 PM
End Date
25-2-2016 5:30 PM
Description
Does the current configuration of local government, centered on cities and counties, fit the needs of the 21st century? If not, how should cities and counties be reshaped and contoured to promote democracy, deliberation, representation, and efficiency? Should the government or the private sector determine these new forms of government?
Moderator: Fred Smoller, Associate Professor of Political Science, Chapman University.
Tim Draper, venture capital investor and founder and CEO of Innovate Your State.
Myron Orfield is the Director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity at the University of Minnesota.
William Fulton is Director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University.
Peter Hong is Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Initiatives at California State University, Los Angeles.
Panel #3 - Reconsidering Cities and Counties for the 21st Century
Does the current configuration of local government, centered on cities and counties, fit the needs of the 21st century? If not, how should cities and counties be reshaped and contoured to promote democracy, deliberation, representation, and efficiency? Should the government or the private sector determine these new forms of government?
Moderator: Fred Smoller, Associate Professor of Political Science, Chapman University.
Tim Draper, venture capital investor and founder and CEO of Innovate Your State.
Myron Orfield is the Director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity at the University of Minnesota.
William Fulton is Director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University.
Peter Hong is Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Initiatives at California State University, Los Angeles.