Welcome to Citiwire.net! What an exciting election, what a set of opportunities for America’s cities and regions! Our Citistates Associate Anthony Flint, author and former Boston Globe correspondent now with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, poses an array of the immediate issues, priority choices that President Obama will face. My column is a touch more philosophic—a topic (suggested to me by our Citistates Associate Farley Peters) of how and whether the Obama election could mark a turning point in the hyper-individualism that has so seriously overwhelmed our private lives and famished constructive civic dialogue in recent years.
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Our mission... to reflect a new American narrative for 21st century cities and regions. Our mission… to reflect a new narrative for 21st century cities and regions. Leaving behind the 20th century pattern of cheap energy, endless automobility, burgeoning suburbs, threatened inner cities. To a challenge-packed 21st century: energy prices headed north, perilous carbon emissions, deepening have-have not divisions, excruciating social problems and deep challenges in education. But a time of exciting promise, too. Read more ›