Previously On Urban Focus
Adolfo Carrion Jr.
How should America develop and stimulate economic development and economic vitality in the nation’s urban areas? That is the topic of this broadcast of Urban Focus.
The program includes an interview with Adolfo Carrión Jr., the regional director of U.S. Department of Housing, covering New York and New Jersey. He previously served as President Obama’s director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs Policy. Before that, he served as the borough president of the Bronx.
The program also includes a discussion with Joan Fitzgerald, the director of the Law, Policy and Society Program at Northeastern University and the author of the book Emerald Cities Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic. It was recently cited by the Huffington Post as one of the top 20 books of the year.
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Urban Focus is broadcast nation-wide via the Internet every Wednesday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at http://streaming.intacs.com/clients/medgarevers. In Brooklyn, the program will be aired on BCAT TV on Channel 70 (Cablevision), Channel 56 (Time Warner), Channel 44 (Verizon ) and Channel 84 (RCN). Urban Focus will be broadcast every Wednesday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. and programs will be archived here on the DuBois Bunche Center’s website.
Through interviews with politicians, policy makers, industry practitioners, scholars and expert analysts, Urban Focus will explore a range of issues that affect underserved communities and communities of color from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to Cape Town, South Africa. The discussions will serve to both draw attention to problems and highlight solutions for issues of concern to these communities.
