Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution – Centennial Scholar – Centennial Scholar Initiative

The outlines of the next American economy were coming into focus, yet the future remained uncertain in Southern Nevada as America's newest metropolis labored through a major recession. It was time, therefore, to get back on track and begin laying the foundation for a new and more durable kind of growth in metropolitan Las Vegas and across the Intermountain West. To help with that, urban visionary Bruce Katz advanced a powerful depiction of the next American economy in a major UNLV lecture and articulated a bold agenda for helping Las Vegas reclaim prosperity in the new era.