The 50 United States are accidents of history, unrelated to current population density or productivity. They were never designed to solve today's problems. Now there's a movement for something new: connections across state borders between the vast metropolitan regions where power really lies. And cities around the world are getting together -- hoping to end national gridlock and address security, pandemic disease and climate change.
Will the United States Become the United Cities of America?
More
- Khanna on megacities as the world's most dominant, enduring social structures
- Khanna on what Trump gets wrong about US neighbors
- Renn on rethinking American cities' success strategies
- Renn on what President Trump would mean for cities
- Barber's 'If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities'
- Global Parliament of Mayors
- Hugh Evans TED Talk on what it means to be a citizen of the world
Credits
Guests:
- Parag Khanna - global strategist and author - @paragkhanna
- Aaron Renn - Manhattan Institute - @urbanophile
- Benjamin Barber - Political theorist and author - @BenjaminRBarber