What Will America Look Like in 2050?

Urban or suburban, what will the U.S. look like in forty years? On the next Your Call we'll be joined by Joel Kotkin, author of the new book The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050. Kotkin celebrates a vision of the country that looks increasingly more like the suburbs of Los Angeles and less like San Francisco or New York. He argues that significant increases in population and sprawling development will make America, "the most affluent, culturally rich, and successful nation in human history." Where do you see yourself living over the coming decades -- the city, the country, or somewhere in between?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to Feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's your vision of America in 2050? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
Joel Kotkin is a journalist, formerly at the Wall Street Journal and currently at Forbes.com, and a development consultant with The Brookings Institution, The New America Foundation and The Center for an Urban Future. He has authored several books; his most recent is The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050.

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Your Call 071609 Can we green the American Dream?

Can we green the American Dream? On the next Your Call we speak with John Wasik, author of The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream. Wasik, a personal finance columnist for Bloomberg, sees the sub-prime mortgage crisis as the first of a wave of problems we'll see as the dream suburb of the 1950's dissolves. Too far away, too expensive, too wasteful. What's next? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Is freedom and independence possible when you never own your own piece of land? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guest:
John Wasik in northside Chicago
Personal finance columnist for Bloomberg News and the author of several books. His last book, The Merchant of Power, was praised by both Studs Terkel and the New York Times.

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Your Call 111808 Suburban Blight

Will the mortgage crisis finally make us rethink suburbia? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with author, social critic, and blogger James Howard Kunstler. He is out with a new book entitled World Made By Hand. The ongoing financial crisis and foreclosures have forced many people to give up their homes in the suburbs. How will the economic meltdown change our lifestyle? And what will the future hold for the suburbs? It's Your Call with guest host Ben Temchine, and you.

Guest: James Howard Kunstler, social critic, blogger, and author of World Made By Hand

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