American cities risk having global connections that are lambasted by those on the outside, and a growing insularity that separates them from their states.
Sinclair Lewis’s classic 1922 novel Babbitt traces the life of a self-important developer who likes to moralise. Remind you of anyone?
The collapse of the Mediterranean neighbourhood, once Europe’s success story, is the casualty of both terror and the financial crisis. It threatens to transform mare nostrum into a moat.
State politicians are governed by check-writers in the energy and telecommunications businesses, but cities are pushing back.
Looking back on three terms of Michael Bloomberg we see a mayor who sought to fundamentally change New York’s character through a series of interventions in the City’s body and the bodies of its citizens.
