Urban Current blog of the Urban and Regional Policy Programme of the German Marshall Fund of the United States

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The Urban Current is the blog of the German Marshall Fund's Urban and Regional Policy program, which fosters exchange on innovative policy strategies and shared challenges between urban and regional policymakers in the United States and Europe.

It has an international focus. Current pieces are on Lyon, France and branding, Germany's declining rural areas (technically not an urban issue, but inextricably linked), and the state of high speed rail in California.