Tag: governance

• Nation-states are no longer fit for purpose to create a habitable future for humans and nature. Which political system is?

  July 20, 2024

  ‘Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world,’ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared to the World Health Assembly on 29 November 2021, quoting Albert Camus’s The Plague.… more ›

• We now live in a world of planned disasters.

  July 20, 2024

  When these things happen, we still call them “natural disasters.” But that’s not right. If we want to understand the landscape of brittleness that surrounds us, we must acknowledge that… more ›

• From Cape Coast to Ibadan, Africa’s future is in its second cities

  November 28, 2023

  The secondary city is defined above all by what it is not: neither a metropolis nor a rural town. The Tunisian city of Gabès and its Nigerian counterpart Ibadan are… more ›

• How Kings Created Angkor Wat—Then Lost It

  August 20, 2022

  OVER A THOUSAND years ago, the ancient Khmer civilization emerged as a powerful cultural and political force in what is now Cambodia and came to dominate much of Southeast Asia. Between… more ›

• Crypto Cities

  November 8, 2021

  One interesting trend of the last year has been the growth of interest in local government, and in the idea of local governments that have wider variance and do more… more ›

• What social networks can learn from public spaces

  January 16, 2021

  The research began with the observation that in the offline world, healthy communities have traditionally been served by thriving public spaces: town squares, libraries, parks, and so on. Like digital… more ›

• From London to Lisbon to Toronto, mayors grapple with public backlash to tech in cities

  December 5, 2020

    For the mayor of any modern city, an increasingly large part of the job entails managing the public backlash to new technology being deployed in those cities. The COVID-19… more ›

• COVID-19 is shifting the focus from smart cities to resilient cities

  November 2, 2020

  The COVID-19 crisis has focused the minds of local governments on the need to build resilience into their recovery strategies. Despite severe budget challenges globally, cities such as London and Tel Aviv, have… more ›