The Urban Culture Wars

Life After Covid-19: Inspirations from Frank Lloyd Wright on the Future of Cities

The three “master builders” of American architecture – Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Frank Lloyd Wright – each influenced the...

Poverty is a Thing of the Past, and the Possibilities for Our Future are Infinite

I recently published an article lamenting the fact that prominent elites are now advocating population control as a tool to combat...

Is the Big Ten or the SEC a Better Academic Conference?

In 1835, Ohio and Michigan fought a near-bloodless battle over the boundary between their two states that left one dead and tensions...

Forced Population Control is an Evil Idea that Won't Solve Climate Change

David Attenborough, according to a recent article for the UK’s Telegraph, has given up on society’s potential for good. In it, he argues...

These are the Most Debated Cities in the World

Some people love them, some people hate them. Earlier, we published a consensus set of rankings of the "best" cities in the world, as...

KAEC vs. NEOM: Inside the Development War Between Saudi Arabia's Sibling New Cities

As one of the most conservative countries on earth takes on the 21st century, a pair of government-initiated new cities are among its...

Which US Cities Have the Biggest Downtowns?

Among its many inventions, one of America's most interesting gifts to the rest of the world was its invention of the modern maga-city...

The South's Big Cities Moment

Originally published on New Geography 2017's tragic events in Charlottesville kickstarted a somber debate about the appropriate way to...

Would Abraham Lincoln Support America's Trade War Against China?

Before he led the country across a five-year struggle that freed the slaves and reunited the union, and before he was even elected...

Battle of the Titans of Urban Planning: Andres Duany vs. Rem Koolhaas

In 1999 at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the two titans of contemporary urban planning had an epic debate: New Urbanism vs....

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