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Is a pernicious form of economic inequality the inevitable consequence of becoming a globally powerful city?

In the book The Last Hunger Season, the intimate dramas of farmers' lives unfold amidst growing awareness that to feed the world's growing population, food production must double by 2050.

Networks like C40 or the Healthy Cities Network show cities have a great potential to mobilize forces across boundaries and shape international agendas.

Threats like water scarcity, urbanization, and climate change require governments to be flexible, and to build flexibility into their institutions.

The recent terrorist attack in Brussels is prompting serious and important thinking about the security of global cities. 

More than any other large American city, Chicago has depended on immigrants to offset the sluggish growth of its native-born population. The decline in immigration will destabilize Chicago's population.

Cities like Chicago compete to lure corporate headquarters to town, but most moves come with a fraction of the jobs—usually a handful of executives.

Like global cities before them, many ambitious secondary cities are escaping their isolated orbits and redefining the hierarchy of the global urban cosmos.

In the United States, Democrats and Republicans remain at opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of prioritizing climate change.

The question of whether global cities should have their own foreign policy has been hotly debated, but recent developments have changed the calculus.