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 Town. Indianapolis. Charleston. Des Moines. What perform these towns have as a common factor? They are towns of moderate size but outsized achievement, powered by a can-do soul, valuing bargain over confrontation and improvement over political triumph. These are the towns leading America . and they’re not waiting for about ANOTHER American Town: The Big Guarantee of Our Midsize Metros Washington’s help.

As mayor of 1 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 Town has become among our nation’s most dynamic places-and it is not alone. Within this book, Cornett translates his city’s success-and the achievement of cities like his-into a eyesight for future years of our nation.

ANOTHER American Town is a story of civic engagement, inventive public policy, and smart urban design. It really is a study from the adjustments re-shaping American metropolitan life-and a blueprint for those to come.