The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy (2013) is a book by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley of the Brookings Institution. Katz and Bradley describe how American cities and metropolitan areas, from New York to Denver, are solving economic problems through networks and cross-sector partnerships while national politics stalls. They argue that metros have become the real engines of growth and problem-solving.

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Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book of the week is "The Metropolitan Revolution" by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley. If you think that America is dysfunctional and its politics broken, you have to read this powerful corrective. The authors who are scholars of the Brookings Institution, argue that across America mayors and metropolitan governments are reaching across party lines, partnering with the private sector, and solving problems. America is growing, but from the bottom up, not the top down.”