“Cities and metro areas are networks, they are not governments; therefore we need to put them central to the debate of how the country moves forward,”  says in this podcast on the metropolitan revolution—metro areas’ recognition that they are where change does and should happen, especially in an era of congressional gridlock. Katz, vice president and director of the Metropolitan Policy Program and also the Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy, explains that the nation’s 388 metropolitan areas are “the true organic economies”; discusses why metro areas are at the “vanguard of policy innovation”; describes why the traditional federalism pyramid should be flipped to feature cities and metros on top; and offers insights into the new spatial geography of innovation that is spurring production-oriented economic growth.   Also in the podcast, Governance Studies Fellow  offers his regular update, "What's Happening in Congress." Show Notes: •  (with Jennifer Bradley)•  (with Julie Wagner)•  (Adie Tomer and Joseph Kane)•  • •  Subscribe to the Brookings Cafeteria on , listen on , and send feedback email to .