Metro Matters Podcast

Series produced by Next American City

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Each month Next American City and the Brookings Institution deliver insightful analysis of the latest news and trends in U.S. metropolitan areas in a 15-minute podcast.

Next American City is a national quarterly magazine about making cities better. We observe, document and conceive realistic solutions about how to improve cities—how to ensure that future generations’ lives are improved, and not made more dangerous or unnecessarily complicated by the decisions we make. In each issue of the magazine you’ll find investigative features, thoughtful essays and interviews from the front lines of urban change and innovation.

In the monthly 15-minute Metro Matters Podcast, Next American City and the Brookings Institution deliver insightful analysis of the latest news and trends in U.S. metropolitan areas.


5 Pieces

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In the wake of the recent midterm elections, many have expressed concern about political gridlock at the federal level. But in his second Metro Mat...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2010
  • Length: 15:54
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During the housing boom, low-income families were drawn to the suburbs by construction and service jobs, as well as the opportunity to have their o...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2010
  • Length: 15:04
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Next American City's Diana Lind interviews Amy Liu of the Brookings Institution about the transformation of New Orleans, five years after the devas...

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 16:23
  • Purchases: 1
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A perennial concern for Congress, immigration has come to the forefront as a major domestic policy issue in the past few weeks. Next American City ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2010
  • Length: 16:10
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Next American City's Editor-in-Chief Diana Lind talks with Mark Muro of the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program about the catastrop...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2010
  • Length: 16:21