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Browse all 7 articles across governance, urban systems, ecologies, and latitudes.
Zoning as Destiny: How Regulation Shapes American Cities
America's housing crisis, racial segregation, and climate challenges share a common origin: zoning laws written a century ago to exclude and divide.
Stranded: Who Gets to Move
Public transportation is social infrastructure. How we design and fund it determines who can access jobs, education, and opportunity.
Vetocracy: Why America Can't Build
Every empire tells time with its roads. Rome had milestones; we have press releases. In 2021, Congress passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law—a vault of money large enough to make accountants need a hammock. The numbers are real; the cranes are not imaginary.
The Shade Gap: Trees as Infrastructure
A solarpunk blueprint for America's hottest century—rights, rules, and the civic art of lowering the temperature. Here is the short version of the
Heat Commons
How a Spanish-American heat commons can save lives, redesign streets, and teach the republic courtesy. The map of summer is a moral document. It shows where trees stand, where pavements glare, where bus shelters exist because someone cared enough to draw a roof.
The Rebuild: Infrastructure as Redistribution
What America's infrastructure actually looks like in 2025—three places, four programs, one honest ledger. We like to pretend infrastructure is a sequence of ribbon cuttings—the pure joy of scissors through satin. In reality, it's a ledger written in three inks: authorizations (Congress),.
New Orleans and the Cities That Could Have Been
Cities are usually born of stubbornness or luck; New Orleans was born of geometry. A kink in the Mississippi offered a natural levee and a commanding bend—close enough to the Gulf to smell salt, far enough upriver to dodge the worst of the waves. That curve made the city a hinge between the.