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29 Jul, 2018 07:51

City way or the highway? Richard Florida, professor at the University of Toronto

Politics as we know it was born in cities. It’s no wonder that cities, especially big ones, feel entitled to call the shots for other, sometimes far more impoverished and disadvantaged communities. In 2016, small towns and the countryside struck back at the ballot box, first with Brexit and then with the election of Donald Trump. Was there something that big-city dwellers, the cosmopolitan elites, failed to grasp about the rest of their countries? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Richard Florida, professor at the University of Toronto and best-selling author.

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