Ooops wrong comment for the wrong room. sry

Ha, ha, ha, good for you! Pull Brian back on topic! as he tries to skate around the question.

There is nothing new about people defining themselves by their city, it has always happened. Londoner, New Yorker are not exactly new expressions. Similarly major urban centres have always driven their nations. This guy is just filling space. I have a great article for FP about the Pope being Catholic if they want to buy it.

Look also at The New School, one of your sponsors, for more analysis...

Most of these places don't have easy access to cars. Part of our suburban flight has to do with interstate highways and easy access to cars.

With the exception of China, I don't think its as easy and affordable to own a car.

Academic globalization studies have been charting this course for 20+ years.

I have studied under some excellent social scientists-professors here in NYC who have specialized in these matters and analysis.

I have asked for Saskia Sassen (Columbia Univ. prof.), among others, to be brought on to speak specifically to global flows and the predominance of cities in global society.

http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/fac-bios/sassen/faculty.html

We have a wealth of academic knowledge in NYC, let's tap it not avoid it.

Well, if there's one thing we've learned from history, it's that you can always tell when one era is ending and another is beginning, and that it's super easy to tell what a future world order will look like.