Business & Economics / Urban & Regional

A new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city's infrastructure and services.

The evolution of the most innovative square mile on the planet: the endless cycles of change and reinvention that created today's Kendall Square.

A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns.

An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.

An overview of the localist movement in the United States, from “buy local” campaigns to urban agriculture, and its potential for addressing global problems of sustainability and justice.