Nation Topics - Cities | The Nation

If there was ever a response to Mitt Romney’s smug RNC laugh line about climate change—or to Obama’s failure to address it—Hurricane Sandy delivered.

Without immediate action, cities like New York and Washington face a future of massive levees, floodgates and ecological catastrophe.

As last year’s occupations showed, cities need more places the public can call its own.

City officials say social impact bonds are a smart way to raise revenue. But government watchdogs worry about creeping corporate influence.

Before the War on Terror and Ray Kelly's spies, the War on Crime helped transform the NYPD into a small army.

The Central Library Plan will compromise the NYPL's scholarly mission.

In a city divided by extremes, the festival brings together all kinds of people to cook up something marvelous.

Just after its six-month anniversary, the last occupation in New England was evicted. Freed from maintaining camp life, will the occupiers' momentum return?

Residents in four New York City districts had the chance to allocate funding for community improvement themselves. Can participatory budgeting make American democracy less lonely?

Our car-dependent, suburban, homeowner culture is no longer affordable. An exhibit at MoMA examines what to do about it.