URBAN EVANGELIST: Bruce Katz sees America humming again, city by city

Bruce Katz’s travel schedule reads like a rock band’s tour book. In the last week of April alone, he was preparing to shuffle off to Montreal (his third trip to that city this year), deliver a speech at Boston College, and fly down to Buenos Aires from his base in Washington, D.C. That’s 11,655 nautical miles in seven days.

The 57-year-old is constantly on the road spreading the word about the centrality of cities as the best places for incubating ideas that have the potential to generate economic growth—big ideas that other metros can copy.