2024-12-22T17:02:45-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/39782337/too-narrowly-focused-on-placemaking Nam Henderson 2012-02-29T14:11:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1h/1hgge3ikodumzxeo.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>You can&rsquo;t just focus on housing and transit in the core of a city, you need to focus on the physical needs of manufacturing, development and the needs that go along with them. That will clearly have a huge effect not only on the city but regional level.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Jason Kambitsis recently interviewed <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/experts/katzb.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bruce&nbsp;Katz, the founding director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program</a>. The two spoke about&nbsp;Katz's belief that optimizing economic structure, not urban form, is the key to revitalizing depressed cities and strengthening thriving ones.</p>