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WBUR's May 2006 series, Boston at the Crossroads, looks at where Boston is and where it's going, through a series of stories about the city's history, its economic base, its people and more. Click through the site's main sections to read or listen to our reporter's stories, and browse the photogalleries and data to learn more about Beantown.

Special Boston at the Crossroads call-in program (Friday 2nd June - RealAudio)
Host: Bob Oakes. Guests: Mayor Tom Menino, Professor Edward Glaeser (Rappaport Institute), Kirk Sykes (Olmsted Green Housing Development), Janice Bourque and the Rev. Cheng Imm Tan (Office of New Bostonians).

Part One: A Changing City
A look at Boston's rich history of regenerating itself. N ow, with the population declining and signature companies moving out, is it time for the city to take a long, hard look a t that tradition and learn from it?

Part Two: Reinventing the Economy
Boston has a history of economic crisis and reinvention. Most recently, the region has moved from an economy based on manufacturing to one based on discovery and innovation. But is brain power enough to sustain the city?

Part Three: Boston's Talent Pool
For four centuries, Boston has survived by reinventing itself. It's done that by attracting first the nation's, then the world's most talented people. Can it keep it up?

Part Four: New Bostonians
Boston is now a majority minority city, in large part because of a booming immigrant population. What do the new Bostonians bring to the city and how does this change in the population transform the city?

Part Five: Leading Boston forward
With home-grown companies leaving town, taking with them traditional civic leadership, who is going to carry that torch? Bob Oakes talks to Paul Grogan of the Boston Foundation and Micho Spring, former chief of staff for Mayor Kevin White, and now New England Chairperson of Weber Shandwick Worldwide.