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A Tale of Three Cities

July 9, 2011

Blair Ruble is the Director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Gilded-Age Chicago, Silver-Age Moscow and Meiji Osaka Japan carved their futures out of their character. With a special sense of destiny, these three cities took off in the late 19th century. In this conversation, Blair Ruble explains the great efforts and challenges of building these giant metropolitan centers.