![]() ![]() ![]() “We’ve had a bias against it.” The golden years for cities came during the 1920s through the ’60s, he said, “the only time where cities were thought to be the real America.” After the tumult and riots of the late ’60s, Fineman said suburban flight accelerated, but that it was Ronald Reagan who said it was not in the cities, but in “the rooted values of the old agrarian ideal” (idealized in the suburbs) where the real America could be found.īoth Fineman and Matthews said Barack Obama knows he has the urban vote and has taken the fight to where it is being waged – on the battleground expertly set up in recent years by the likes of Republican strategist and George W. “At the most we’re ambivalent about cities, in America,” said Fineman, who grew up in Pittsburgh. This is despite 83 percent of Americans living in cities or suburbs, generating 89 percent of the nation’s wealth, according to a question posed by moderator Phyllis Kaniss, executive director of the co-hosting American Academy of Political and Social Science. ![]() Two high-profile members of the national media fielded questions about the Presidential election and its startling dearth of discussion of urban affairs at the conclusion to “The Shape of the New American City,” a two-day conference co-hosted by the Penn Institute for Urban Research held October 24th and 25th on the Penn campus.Ĭhris Matthews, a Philly native and the host of MSNBC’s “Hardball,” and Howard Fineman, Newsweek’s Washington bureau chief and a frequent guest on MSNBC, said it was because the policy debate has been framed by – and built around – exurban voters, in what Fineman called “the newest cities and newest edges of the cities.” ![]()
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