Economy
What Mayors Want From the Next U.S. President
CityLab surveyed a bipartisan group of mayors on how they view the stakes of the 2016 election. Here’s what they said.
It may be a great idea for mayors to take over running the world, but they don’t have that kind of power just yet. In the meantime, the opinions of local leaders are increasingly valued, thanks in large part to a global movement that recognizes cities as the source of the vast majority of the world’s innovative ideas (not to mention its economic activity). For America’s mayors, there’s no Republican or Democratic way to pick up the garbage, or so the famous saying goes—there’s just the on-the-ground work of being an executive with an often limited budget and scope of power.
So in advance of Election Day, CityLab polled a bipartisan group of U.S. mayors on the following question: