Magazine
Issue 23: Progress?
Summer 2009
Issue 23 is packed with features including a profile of Newark’s Mayor Cory Booker, an examination of air quality in American cities, a debate about the value of convention centers and a look at Washington, D.C.‘s efforts to combat crime. Interviews with a young environmental justice activist, a forward-thinking web entrepreneur and an urban theorist round out the issue.
Features
- Unconventional Thinking
Why cities shouldn’t buy into the convention center economy
- Confidence Man
Is Newark’s mayor saving the city or selling it out?
- AIR APPARENT
Over four decades after the Clean Air Act was signed by Congress, more than half the country continues to live in areas where pollution has reached unhealthy levels. Cities with different problems have taken steps to clean up the air. But is it enough?
Departments
- IdeasThe Slow Rebirth of Mexico City’s Centro Histórico
- IdeasThe Lure of Local Currency 1
- IdeasThe Myth of Market Research
- IdeasCities, Banks and the Bailout
- InterviewUrban Academy
- InterviewTaking Back the Streets
- InterviewYoung, Gifted and Green
- Urban HistorianAsk an Urban Historian
- InterviewCarbon-Cutting Culture
Interview with Edward Mazria
Etcetera
- ReviewsPutting Cities in a Bind
- ReviewsReady or Not, Here They Come
- Reviews14 Ways To Look at L.A.
- ReviewsRevolution 2009
- Photo EssayIsle de Jean Charles
