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The Next American City
The Next American City: The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros | Mick Cornett, Jayson White
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From four-term Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, a hopeful and illuminating look at the dynamic and inventive urban centers that will lead the United States in coming years. Oklahoma City. Indianapolis. Charleston. Des Moines. What do these cities have in common? They are cities of modest size but outsized accomplishment, powered by a can-do spirit, valuing compromise over confrontation and progress over political victory. These are the cities leading America . . . and they're not waiting for Washington's help. As mayor of one of America's most improved cities, Cornett used a bold, creative, and personal approach to orchestrate his city's renaissance. Once regarded as a forgettable city in "flyover country," Oklahoma City has become one of our nation's most dynamic places-and it is not alone. In this book, Cornett translates his city's success-and the success of cities like his-into a vision for the future of our country. The Next American City is a story of civic engagement, inventive public policy, and smart urban design. It is a study of the changes re-shaping American urban life-and a blueprint for those to come.
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So I love an urban planning/city solution read, and this one was interesting- I wish it had been broader reaching, because I thought it‘d be referring to a lot of smaller cities and it seemed to be focused mainly on Oklahoma City (which makes perfect sense, as the author is a former mayor of the city!)

So my initial assumptions of what this read would be were off, but I do want to visit OKC now.. so, a win?