Urban Issues

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After 17 years we are closing New Geography.com.  read more »

Discovered by chance at a photo book fair, Peter Mitchell’s photographs of Leeds capture a civic world that assumed legibility, continuity, and shared meaning  read more »

Last Monday I wrote a piece that lamented the state of policy movement on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in America. Here’s my followup to that.  read more »

Conservatives have rightly denounced the extremist tendency among young progressives, but there’s a similar problem now evident on the Right.  read more »

Public universities are facing a crisis of confidence. Trust in higher education has fallen sharply over the past decade, driven by rising costs, ideological imbalance, and  read more »

In November 2025, a version of Katsushika Hokusai’s Under the Great Wave off Kanagawa sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong for HK$21.7 million — the  read more »

This is going to seem like navel-gazing for a moment, but ultimately the point emerges. Please bear with me.  read more »

Even as many scholars and pundits deny the differences between the sexes and vastly expand the concept of gender, society is increasingly dividing along these clear and simple lines.  read more »

The election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York – alongside the victory of similarly hard-Left candidates in other mayoral races – has left some predicting that urban America will inevitably fall into a “doom loop” of decline  read more »

You know, prior to the Covid pandemic, there was a lot more discussion in the urbanist sphere about economic inequality and a lack of economic mobility in cities, and their influence on the rising  read more »