Ellen P. Goodman (Rutgers): “Smart Cities” Meet “Anchor Institutions”: The Case of Broadband and the Public Library. Sean H. Williams (Texas): Sex (and Money) in the City. From The Washington Post, Emily Badger on what happens when a metropolitan area has way too many governments; on how the wealthy are walling themselves off in cities increasingly segregated by class; on the most unequal cities in the United States; and on the impressive environmental bonus of crowded city living. McKenzie Wark on Andrew Ross and the politics of the American city in the Anthropocene. Courtney Humphries on what scientists are finding when they treat the urban landscape as an evolving environment of its own. Ruth Graham on what “urban physics” could tell us about how cities work. Maureen E. Brady (Yale): The Failure of America's First City Plan. From Dissent, Michael Kazin on the promises and limits of progressive cities; Joshua B. Freeman on De Blasio’s New York; James N. Gregory on Seattle’s Left coast formula; and Abby Scher on Solidarity, PA. Garrett Dash Nelson on how Boston dreamed of its future, a century ago. Alec MacGillis on why St. Louis should move to Illinois. Derek Thompson on the miracle of Minneapolis — no other place mixes affordability, opportunity, and wealth so well. Rebecca Onion interviews Steven Conn, author of Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century. Kevin Roose on 5 reasons cities are getting better, and everywhere else is getting worse.
