The City as the Power Center
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The 50 states are central to America’s political system…but real power now lies in the growing metropolitan regions that cross state boundaries. We’ll hear how cities are getting together to overcome our national gridlock before unsolved problems reach the crisis stage.
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| 0:03.1 | Listen to the organist, the culturally omnivorous, intellectually ravenous podcast from the editors of the Believer magazine. |
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| 0:30.4 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, the United States become the United Cities of America. |
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| 0:52.0 | The 50 United States are accidents of history, unrelated to current population density or productivity. |
| 0:58.1 | They were never designed to solve today's problems. |
| 1:01.1 | Now there's a movement for something new. |
| 1:03.2 | Connections across state borders between the vast metropolitan regions where power really lies. |
| 1:09.3 | And cities around the world are getting together, hoping to end national gridlock, |
| 1:13.5 | address security, pandemic disease, and climate change. |
| 1:17.5 | We'll hear about that. |
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