City Journal.
City Journal Autumn 2010.
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A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.

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The Next Wave of Urban Reform.
Steven Malanga
The Next Wave of Urban Reform
Mayors Cory Booker and Dave Bing fight to save two of America’s most distressed cities.
The Economy of Cities.
Start-Up City.
Edward L. Glaeser
Start-Up City
Entrepreneurs are the heroes of New York’s past and the key to its future.
Why Big Cities Matter More than Ever.
Mario Polèse
Why Big Cities Matter More than Ever
Seven reasons
Cities from Scratch.
Brandon Fuller and Paul Romer
Cities from Scratch
A new path for development
American Urbanism.
The Sidewalks of San Francisco.
Heather Mac Donald
The Sidewalks of San Francisco
Can the City by the Bay reclaim public space from aggressive vagrants?
Big Easy Rising.
Nicole Gelinas
Big Easy Rising
Five years after Katrina, New Orleanians are showing how to do recovery right.
The Windows.
Andrew Klavan
The Windows
A short story
Atlanta's Public-Housing Revolution.
Howard Husock
Atlanta’s Public-Housing Revolution
Renee Glover has torn down blighted projects, required tenants to work, and transformed lives.
The Afghans of Fremont.
Judith Miller
The Afghans of Fremont
Anxious, uprooted—and under surveillance
How the Road to Bell Was Paved.
William Voegeli
How the Road to Bell Was Paved
Not with good intentions but with the avarice of professional government bureaucrats
Across the Globe.
Weimar Istanbul.
Claire Berlinski
Weimar Istanbul
Dread and exhilaration in a city on the verge of political catastrophe
Asian Megacities, Free and Unfree.
Guy Sorman
Asian Megacities, Free and Unfree
How politics has shaped the growth of Shanghai, Beijing, and Seoul
Now City.
Sol Stern
Now City
Tel Aviv, a modern, capitalist-built oasis in the Middle East
History Lessons.
The Original Birth of Freedom.
André Glucksmann
The Original Birth of Freedom
What we owe the audacious Athenians
The Destiny of Cities.
Victor Davis Hanson
The Destiny of Cities
Throughout history, forces both natural and human have made cities rise and fall.
Urbanities.
How American Press Freedom Began on Wall Street.
Myron Magnet
How American Press Freedom Began on Wall Street
A 1735 libel trial in New York’s City Hall proved revolutionary.
In Search of the Washington Novel.
Christopher Hitchens
In Search of the Washington Novel
A colorful genre awaits its masterpiece.
City Lights.
Stefan Kanfer
City Lights
New York’s long literary line
Soundings.
Fred Siegel
Upstate: Rage or Resignation?
North and west of the city, New Yorkers are fed up.
Conor Friedersdorf
An Innovator in Every Apartment
Cities should unravel their pre-digital regulations.
Kay S. Hymowitz
Fragile Urban Families
New findings show just how bad things are for the kids.
Steven Malanga
The Man That Bankrupted Harrisburg
A debt-loving mayor has busted the budget of Pennsylvania’s capital.
Michael Knox Beran
Rhyme Scheme
An NEA initiative debauches the educational value of verse.
Benjamin A. Plotinsky
The Bus Market Booms
Innovators are making travel affordable, with no foe in sight but the feds.
Departments.
Brian C. Anderson
In Prospect
Twenty years of City Journal
Oh, to be in England
The Vandals in Retreat.
Theodore Dalrymple
The Vandals in Retreat
Britain rediscovers its architectural heritage.
Diarist
Harry Stein
Boxing with My Wife
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