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?

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.

Nancy Levinson reviews some provocative positions on infrastructure and challenges designers to recast the relationship between individual initiative and political community.

With climate change talks raging in Copenhagen, Vishaan Chakrabarti imagines a city-focused national strategy to make our country healthy, prosperous and green.

Writer and designer James Reeves reflects on his outdoor living room in New York from his newly adopted home of Helsinki.

Andrew Blum articulates the difficulty of communicating architectural urbanism when urban processes of change do not correspond to any existing media cycle.