The Next American City: The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros Audiobook (Free)

From four-term Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, a hopeful and illuminating look at the active and inventive urban centers which will lead the United States in coming years.

Oklahoma City. Indianapolis. Charleston. Des Moines. What do these towns have in common? They are cities of humble size but outsized fulfillment, powered by a can-do spirit, valuing compromise over confrontation and improvement over political triumph. These are the towns leading America . and they are not waiting for about The Next American City: The Big Guarantee of Our Midsize Metros Washington’s help.

As mayor of 1 of America’s most improved towns, Cornett utilized a bold, creative, and personal method of orchestrate his city’s renaissance. Once regarded as a forgettable city in ‘flyover nation,’ Oklahoma City has become among our nation’s most dynamic places-and it isn’t alone. Within this reserve, Cornett translates his city’s success-and the success of metropolitan areas like his-into a vision for the future of our country.

ANOTHER American Town is a story of civic engagement, inventive public policy, and smart urban design. It is a study from the adjustments re-shaping American urban life-and a blueprint for all those to come.