If you want to be optimistic about America today, “stand on your head,” says columnist Tom Friedman in The New York Times. Writing about our new book, The Metropolitan Revolution, Friedman notes that—as described in its pages—with Washington paralyzed, U.S. cities and metropolitan areas are emerging as the “great laboratories and engines of our economy,” making things look a whole lot better from the bottom up.
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Bruce Katz
Former Centennial Scholar
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Jennifer Bradley
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Jennifer Bradley
Fellow and Senior Advisor
- Brookings Metro
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July 28, 2013