Thanks to the teleférico, tourists can comfortably gawk at Brazil's poor.

A wheeling book of aspirations and frustrations, London: A History in Verse offers us a literary treasury: a record of the city, a roll of its events.

The never-ending budget crises of American cities are claiming another victim: public transit.

Segregation Is Still a Problem in the United States

Reflections on democratic yearnings in Iran

It's time to rethink the concept of the "inner city."

The Return of the Urban Dreamscape—in Brooklyn

Managing our way out of the water crisis.

With benefits linked to work, Democrats could have argued for a much more generous safety net. But they missed the opportunity to rethink the social compact in this new moral universe.