Next City
Revisiting Lexington - "This ‘Big Town’ Has Solutions for Cities Everywhere"
October 23, 2024 · 33 min
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Lexington, Kentucky is solving problems that stump cities twice its size, and this episode shows how.
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In this episode
- How one city built a culture of nonpartisan leadership
- Practical approaches to closing the racial wealth gap locally
- What civic engagement looks like when it actually works
- Why Lexington became the backdrop for a national urban policy conference
About this episode
This week, we’re revisiting an episode we released earlier this year, all about Lexington, Kentucky — a city where collaboration and creativity are transforming challenges into opportunities. In this episode, we highlighted how Lexington’s leaders are finding ways to foster nonpartisanship, boost civic engagement, and narrow the racial wealth gap.We’re bringing this episode back now because it offers a window into the themes we explored in even greater depth during our Vanguard conference, held in Lexington just last month. Over the next couple of weeks on this podcast, we’ll be sharing special episodes that bring you along with Next City to the conference.
About Next City
Join Lucas Grindley, executive director at Next City, where we believe journalists have the power to amplify solutions and spread workable ideas. Each week Lucas will sit down with trailblazers to discuss urban issues that get overlooked.
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