Thoughts on "The Power Broker"

smartercities:

In a 1998 speech at a Brookings Institution-sponsored conference on the future of American cities, Robert Caro offered what must surely be one of the clearest statements of the purpose of a city. In the end, Caro concluded, “a city has to be a home to its people.” This is to say that…

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