What cities need now
Urban technology projects have long sought to manage the city—to organize its ambiguities, mitigate its…
Fiction: Unpaired
They drilled a hole in my skull on the 43rd floor of an empty skyscraper…
Politics and the pandemic have changed how we imagine cities
Science fiction is full of cities imagined from the ground up, but an author who…
How technology helped archaeologists dig deeper
Construction workers in New York’s Lower Manhattan neighborhood were breaking ground for a new federal…
Slum dwellers in India get unique digital addresses
Fourteen-year-old Neha Dashrath was ecstatic when the pizza arrived. It was the first time she’d…
Cape Town fights for energy independence
Power outages are a way of life in Africa’s most industrialized country. Over the last…
Can “democracy dollars” keep real dollars out of politics?
Teresa Mosqueda used to spend her days asking people to run for office. A union…
Rio de Janeiro is making a digital map of one of Brazil’s largest favelas
Finding your way through Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro is not easy. The buildings are…
Why cities will come back stronger after covid
The coronavirus pandemic presents a cruel irony for urban dwellers. What good are cities if…
Lessons from the pandemic’s superstar data scientist, Youyang Gu
The data scientist Youyang Gu thinks of himself as a realist—he declares it in his…