The Future of Cities

The Future of Cities (Special Issue)
Guernica

AD: Marisa Nakasone

"...the 'myth of the city is immured in each generation’s view of the past.' And so in The Future of Cities, our second special issue of the year, we also look backwards. And consider the struggles of those before us: for peace, for clean air, for justice.

...many of these accounts also see hope, with humanism as their foundation: Xiaolu Guo dreams of an unpolluted future in which 'residents of Beijing can walk in the fresh air without masking their faces'; of New Delhi, Rana Dasgupta writes that 'the dull culture of superiority will be reanimated with a much-needed jolt of modernism'; Salar Abdoh describes a Tehran that will 'stop an express bus far from its station for a lost guest.' Dan Sheehan will watch from afar as 'the door to a better future for thousands [is] thrown open' in Dublin, as the constitutional ban on abortion is lifted; and Etgar Keret imagines peace in Tel Aviv, a city 'that continues to draw to it many who still believe we can build a better future through action and not just through prayer.'"