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City planning

The Death of a Once Great City

By Kevin Baker,

As New York enters the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is in imminent danger of becoming something it has never been before: unremarkable. It is approaching a state…

Instant City

By Nicolai Ouroussoff,

In 1848, Charles Dickens vividly described in Dombey and Son the hordes of men and women streaming into London from the countryside, “footsore and weary, and gazing fearfully at the…

Kabubble

By Matthieu Aikins,

It was a Monday in November, the second day of Eid al-Adha 2011, and the streets of Kabul were free of their usual knot of honking vehicles. In Taimani, a…

The Acme Corporation

By Alec MacGillis,

There used to be a town called Acme at the intersection of Michigan Highway 72 and U.S. Route 31; now there’s a Chase bank and a pair of gas stations.…

Holding Harlem

By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts,

Yellow-card journalism

By Chris Barron,

Green dawn

By Mara Hvistendahl,

Back to the future

By Russ Rymer,

Redevelopment as pork barrel

By D.D. Guttenplan,

Dreams

By James S. Kunen,

The heavenly city

By Edward N. Costikyan, Maxwell Lehman,

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