Writing the City

Writing the City envisions New York City through written reflection and opinion.

Empowering the City:
London / New York
Gerald Frug contrasts the structures and powers of city government in London and New York in order to ask a crucial urban question: what are our cities empowered to do?
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Double Down on Density
Vishaan Chakrabarti responds to President Obama’s State of the Union Address and considers how heightened investment in the Infrastructure of Tomorrow could be our silver bullet.
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The Public Works
Nancy Levinson reviews some provocative positions on infrastructure and challenges designers to recast the relationship between individual initiative and political community.
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Being Dense about Denmark
With climate change talks raging in Copenhagen, Vishaan Chakrabarti imagines a city-focused national strategy to make our country healthy, prosperous and green.
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My Living Room
Writer and designer James Reeves reflects on his outdoor living room in New York from his newly adopted home of Helsinki.
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In Praise of Slowness
Andrew Blum articulates the difficulty of communicating architectural urbanism when urban processes of change do not correspond to any existing media cycle.
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