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Improving Cities Through Better Government: Dr. David Swindell at TEDxEvansChurchill

902 views · Published 18 December 2013 · 16:06 · Indexed 22 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Dr. David Swindell is the Director of the Center for Urban Innovation and an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University. Dr. Swindell is an advocate of the metropolitan mission concept through which the intellectual resources of the university are focused on developing new solutions to the challenges confronting citizens in urbanized areas. Before joining ASU, he directed the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Public Policy Degree Program at the University of North Carolina and the UNC-Charlotte Master of Public Administration program, as well as MPA director at Clemson University. Dr. Swindell received his doctorate from Indiana University in Public Policy.  This talk highlights the challenges we face as cities grow and how those challenges are going to be solved

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