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Forgotten America


Apr 3, 2023

Today’s episode takes a bit of a detour outside of our typical topics about communities and challenges in rural America. 
 
Scott Beyer joins us again on the Forgotten America Podcast - this time to discuss the Scott Beyer Market Urbanism World Tour, where he is exploring 40 cities across 3 regions for a year and a half, to see how the fast pace of development in the Global South can inform free-market policy and urban issues in a broader context. 
 
Garrett talks with Scott just after he has completed the first segment of his worldwide tour in Latin America. He shares the differences he is seeing between Southern American countries and North America in terms of our cultures, levels of regulation, and the way we build our cities. He also discusses the importance of the rule of law, free-markets, and other freedom values that could help these cities in the Global South become more prosperous. On the flip-side, Scott also shares how at the smallest levels, some of these countries are even freer and less regulated than the United States - there are even some cities that are entirely privately owned! 
 
While our podcast focuses primarily on rural America, the lines between urban and rural can often be a bit blurry, so let’s join Garrett & Scott to see what we can learn from Scott’s exploration of world-wide urbanism through a free-market lens. Maybe we’ll find solutions to the challenges that are facing us in our very own communities.
 
Resources
Large City Rankings
  1. Tokyo 
  2. Dheli
  3. Shanghai
  4. Sao Paulo
  5. Mexico City
  6. Cairo
  7. Mumbai
  8. Beijing
  9. Dhaka
  10. Osaka
  11. New York
  12. Karachi
  13. Buenos Aires
  14. Chongqing
  15. Istanbul
Favelas - working class neighborhoods in Brazil (Scott compares these to the homes West Virginians build up into the hills and the ways in which trailer park communities are organized in some rural communities)
 
How to Follow Scott Beyer’s Work
Market Urbanism Report
The Market Urbanism Podcast
Market Urbanism Report Facebook Group
Scott’s previous episode on Forgotten America: Ep.004: The Jagged Heart of Appalachia 
Twitter: @sbcrosscountry or @marketurbanist 
Instagram: @market_urbanism_report
Follow Scott’s World Tour at the Independent Institute: Catalyst
 
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Garrett Ballengee, Host
Executive Director - @gballeng
Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy
 
Amanda Kieffer, Executive Producer
Communications Director - @akieffer13 
Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy
 
Tony Reed, Editor & Producer
Associate Director of Operations - @treed1134
International Center for Law & Economics
 
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