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Metropolis Magazine: The leaders profiled here are all recently elected mayors doing innovative work in urban design, planning, and sustainability. Each of them was recommended by Story Bellows of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, an incredible program that advances the role of design in
urban policy. Joseph Riley, the mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, founded the institute in 1985 (with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Conference of Mayors) to train mayors to become the chief urban planners of their cities.
The mayors profiled in this survey lead cities with unique advantages and challenges. The mayors of Sacramento and Houston are competing
for the title of Green City, U.S.A. San Antonio is a sleeper city—the fastest-growing city in Texas and the seventh-biggest in the country—with a rarely acknowledged identity as the largest majority Mexican-American city in the United States.
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