Under President-elect Trump, look to cities and metros to power America forward

For the past eight years, gridlock in Washington, DC left city and metro leaders with an inconsistent partner in the federal government, spurring what Jennifer Bradley and I have termed a “metropolitan revolution” of bottom-up innovation across the country. But with Donald Trump and the Republicans’ electoral victory, the wheels of the federal government are about to get moving again; this time, with a burst of conservative activism not seen in decades. A wide range of policies relating to taxes, trade, the environment, immigration, infrastructure, and health care seem likely to be upended.