Commentary and Analysis

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

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

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

Kristin Ljungkvist discusses how cities will need to operate in an environment of terrorism.

Noah Toly discusses the actions cities can take to assist in climate change reversal.

Cities—especially a select number of influential, or global, cities—will take their place alongside nation-states as key actors shaping our world.

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.

Security researcher Robert Muggah explains how some cities are using new approaches to address these problems.

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