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Download Journal Journal Winter 2012 America’s changing face Taeku Lee explores the effect long-term demographic trends will have on the politics and society of the US Benjamin Barber on why cities, not countries, are best placed to solve the world’s problems Sir Harold Evans assesses the outcome of the Leveson inquiry “AMERICA APPEARS DESTINED TO BECOME A ‘MAJORITY-MINORITY’ NATION” TAEKU LEE, PAGE 10 REGULARS FEATURES 06 UPDATE 10 US ELECTIONS 33 OBITUARY The latest RSA news America’s race The man who designed Are recent demographic shifts, the present 09 PREVIEW asks Taeku Lee, going to set Clive Grinyer explores the life of Events programme highlights US politics and society on Bill Moggridge, who designed the a dramatic new course that will first laptop 46 NEW FELLOWS / REPLY change the country for good? Introducing six new RSA Fellows, 34 DEVELOPMENT plus how to get involved and your 16 PUNISHMENT Design for life views on recent features Playing fair with prisoners Socially responsible design is Richard Dagger outlines his vision transforming cities and their 48 REVIEW of a prison system that is tough on inhabitants in the developing David Priestland argues that the those who break the law, but aims world. Cynthia Smith and Roland world is on the verge of major to restore useful citizens to society Karthaus discuss its importance and historical change; and Kate highlight pioneering practices Raworth explains her green 20 MAYORS and progressive theory of Can cities save us? 38 ECONOMICS doughnut economics Are cities better able to solve the Rethinking capitalism world’s problems than nation We should stop thinking of the 50 LAST WORD states? Dr Benjamin Barber outlines economy as a machine and start Transatlantic: Ian Leslie offers why a parliament of mayors could to treat it as a garden, according to a British perspective on the work for the benefit of all Nick Hanauer and Eric Liu enduring glamour of American culture and politics 26 LONDON 42 BUSINESS A tale of two cities Not business as usual Two LSE academics – Ian Gordon Dov Seidman explains that FELLOWSHIP IN ACTION and Henry Overman – assess how companies do things is whether the UK’s capital could becoming more important 15 Vote for Policies stand alone than what they do 19 SOS Gangs 30 THE PRESS 44 EDUCATION In the public interest A curriculum for the times 25 Pioneering the social Sir Harold Evans assesses whether Joe Hallgarten and Marius enterprise town the Leveson report has gone far Frank describe how the Modern enough in proposing regulation Baccalaureate offers students an 41 Widening connections for the UK press education for school and life www.thersa.org 3 COMMENT Patron of the Society Executive RSA Journal “ THERE IS HM The Queen Chief executive Editor A DRIVE Matthew Taylor James de Mellow President Director of external affairs Consultant editor Nina Bolognesi Molly Bennett TO DEVOLVE HRH The Princess Royal Director of programme Creative director Dr Adam Lent Ben Barrett POWER TO Honorary benefactor Chief operating officer Senior designer Carol Jackson Jenni Dennis Ron Gerard OBE KStJ Venue director Publisher CITIES” Matthew Bates Lucy Tatton-Brown Board of Trustees Production director MATTHEW TAYLOR RSA (The Royal Society for John Faulkner Chair the encouragement of Arts, Production artworker Vikki Heywood CBE Manufactures & Commerce), Jack Morgan Deputy chair 8 John Adam Street, Managing director, Wardour Localism is a political force full of potential. or to achieve a more geographically balanced model of development Dr Suzy Walton London WC2N 6EZ Claire Oldfield As cities start to handle a variety of issues more in an ever more divided nation. But as Dr Benjamin Barber is to argue Treasurers Tel +44 (0)20 7930 5115 CEO, Wardour effectively than national governments, this may in a forthcoming book – the contents of which are prefigured in his Vanessa Harrison www.thersa.org Martin MacConnol have implications for the RSA’s structure fascinating interview in these pages – there is also recognition that Hanif Virji Registered as a charity local leadership is able to achieve things that are virtually impossible for David Archer in England and Wales Commissioning editor Whether our knowledge of the US is gleaned from visiting in person or national leaders. Tony Cohen no. 212424 and in Scotland Rachel O’Brien looking through the window of its ever more brilliant television output Two points stand out. For all the talk of joined-up government, the Jackie Elliman no. SC037784 Distribution (Breaking Bad is my current favourite), it is impossible not to see it scale of national administration makes working in departmental silos Clive Grinyer Ann Gutowski as country of many and varied parts. This reflects not just its size and inevitable. At a city level, the connections between the policies of Zena Martin RSA Journal, Volume CLVIII huge discrepancies in income, but also its combinations of historical, different agencies are more visible and the possibility of reconfiguration Don Pinchbeck No. 5552, Winter 2012 The RSA Journal is published economic, cultural and political factors that make the typical Texan a lot and collaboration more conceivable. Indeed, the greatest current Keith Read CBE ISSN: 0958-0433 for the RSA by Wardour, more different to a typical New Yorker than, say, a resident of Berlin is impediment to more strategic thinking is that the policies of many Jonathan Rollason 5th Floor, Drury House, to a Parisian or a Londoner. Even if there were an average American, services are still centrally mandated. Local leaders, by being closer to 34–43 Russell Street, this person would – as Taeku Lee points out in this Journal – be very the ground and identified with places we live, are also more able to Fellowship Council London WC2B 5HA different 20 years hence to who they were 20 years ago. connect with voters. This provides the basis for what might be called Tel +44 (0)20 7010 0999 What most Americans share – and what may make its national politics ‘normative leadership’, the kind that involves changing public attitudes Dr Irene Campbell www.wardour.co.uk seem more right wing, Obama’s re-election notwithstanding, than most and behaviours in pursuit of shared goals. My favourite example takes us Wiard Sterk of Western Europe’s – is an instinctive hostility to federal government. back to the USA, where Oklahoma City mayor Mick Cornett turned his Region/Nation Chair Council Indeed, I have heard it argued that American antipathy to signing various own diagnosis of obesity into a crusade for weight loss and fitness that, At-large Councillors East of England Malcolm Noble Suzanna Pickering multinational agreements (for example, on climate change) is as much as well as making his city slimmer and more active, transformed it into East Midlands Dr Peter Robinson Ruth Jindal about a lack of trust of Washington as it is of internationalism. one of the most attractive and economically dynamic in the country. Andy Gibson Ireland Denis Stewart Dr Edel Chadwick Perhaps, then, it is not surprising that it was an American, the While seeing this local leadership potential, Benjamin Barber goes Charlotte Britton London Joyce Arram Roxanne Persaud pioneering sociologist Daniel Bell, who said many decades ago that the further and shows that city leaders seem much more capable than their Dr Kathy Seddon North East Jan M Portillo Bill Gibbon nation state had become too small for the big problems in life and too national counterparts of collaborating internationally on various issues, Edward Whiting North West Lilian Barton Nick Clifford big for the small problems. In the years since, the nation state has just including climate change. Is this perhaps because, in a world of diverse Jenny Bland Scotland John Naylor Ann Packard about held on to its authority. After all, international government is still and moving populations, we find it easier to reconcile tribal allegiance John Elliott South Central Tony Hoskins Bethan Michael a game played – albeit falteringly – by nation states. Indeed, in some with the local with than the national? The hyphenated identity of Sikh- Pooran Wynarczyk South East Dr Irene Campbell Eugenie Violet Teasley nations, including England, the centre has drawn further power up from Brummie or West London-Somali avoids difficult and politically freighted Richard Tyrie South West Nicholas Parker Kath Davies institutions and localities. questions about Britishness. Steve Coles Wales Cymru Andrew Board Wiard Sterk Now, however, even in England there is real momentum behind the There are implications of this analysis for the RSA’s own strategy Seren Page-Bailey West David Punter Nick Garrick drive to devolve power to cities and city regions. Although the coalition as it seeks to become a more international organisation. Currently, we Clive Harries West Midlands Keith Horsfall Julia Goodfellow-Smith government has not fully endorsed the vision of urbanism laid out by work on the basis of national chapters, for example in Australia, Finland Ed Whitelaw Yorkshire Pam Warhurst Marion Simon MBE former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine, across the political and the US itself. Perhaps in the longer term, our aspiration should spectrum the current question about devolving power is not ‘whether’, be to build a network of city chapters. It is, after all, cities, towns and © The RSA. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part prohibited without prior permission of the RSA. The RSA and Wardour accept no responsibility for but ‘how’ or ‘when’. neighbourhoods that seem to provide the most fertile territorial locus the views expressed by contributors to the RSA Journal, or for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations, or for errors in articles or advertisements in the Some may portray this as an act of desperation by a government that for the social enterprise and innovation that the RSA seeks to foster in RSA Journal.
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