Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  > Inside U Chicago  New Haven youth and community leaders team up to talk about tough issues at the Yale chapter-sponsored youth forum Announcements National Expo: July 11th Hyde Park Summit: August 14-17 Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway." — Eleanor Roosevelt    Center on Urban Development > Roosevelt Home > U Chicago > Urban Development Welcome to the Center on Urban Development. Our policy group studies various aspects of the modern metropolis, covering a plethora of topics ranging from public housing to transportation to urban gentrification. This year we will focus finding solutions to two challenges. Domestically our emphasis will be on redeveloping the Rust Belt - what resources and strategies ought to be employed in cities like Cleveland, Fort Wayne, and Detroit to revitalize their industrial base and attract new residents? Internationally our policy writing will focus on the global ghetto, investigating the new social structures that have emerged on the periphery of the world's major cities. Does the United States have anything to learn from these chaotic, unplanned communities? How can their residents be better integrated into the fabric of the city? I look forward to an instructive and exciting year. Meetings: Friday at 4:30 in Cobb (signs will be posted). Group members: Cassie Fields Saudamini Bagai Darius Banani Aruj Chaudhey Michael D’Arcy Rebecca Eavou Kim Emiru Anyu Fang Kevin Feeney Mariel Fernandez Azure Gilman Sydney Hearn Charlotte Jameson Mary Johnson Michael Kinnucan James C Kraft Adam Lebovitz John Lee Teresa S Lim Gabriel Mares Haley Miller Vicky Reccoppa Tobara Richardson Luke Rodehorst Emma Scripps Colin Sullivan Shira Tevah Irene Yoon   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359