#BESTOF2022: 1/2: #UK: Sweden: Bristol: Gothenburg: Tale of two cities, one growing & What is to be done? Joel Budd. Economist. (Originally posted October 22, 2022)

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#BESTOF2022: 1/2: #UK: Sweden: Bristol: Gothenburg: Tale of two cities, one growing & What is to be done? Joel Budd. Economist. (Originally posted October 22, 2022)
https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/10/06/british-cities-have-far-too-little-power-and-its-holding-them-back

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0:41.2	A tale of two cities, Gothenburg, Sweden, Bristol, United Kingdom England. I welcome Joe Bond,
0:50.4	a commentator on Britain for the Economist magazine, and Joel has done us all the favor of introducing
0:58.8	us to these two cities, Gothenburg and Bristol, with the magical word growth. Growth is a word
1:06.0	that's routinely used now, not only in Britain, but also it's a magical word in the United States,
1:11.8	especially during time of presidential elections. But we come now to Gothenburg and Bristol,
1:19.0	because they compare their metropolitan areas, compare in GDP, they compare in population size,
1:28.4	and they certainly compare in population growth these last years. Joel, a very good evening too.
1:34.0	Thank you very much for joining. First we'll go to Bristol, England, and this is all new to me.
1:40.8	It has a mayor, but the mayor's office is about to be discontinued, replaced by the mayor of West
1:48.0	England. You tell me there are 10 of these metropolitan organizations. What is a mayor of West
1:54.3	England? What does that mean? Good evening. Yes, Bristol has a funny situation of having two
2:00.2	overlapping mayors. So the city of Bristol, which has half a million people, so making it about as
2:07.6	big as Miami, has a mayor. But there is also a mayor of the west of England, which is an area
2:17.6	a large area, centered on Bristol. And what is happening is that in order to get rid of this overlap,
2:27.2	the city mayor is being abolished, so we'll just have a council running the city. And the mayor of
2:36.8	the west of England will remain. We can think of the mayor of the west of England as a kind of
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