Commentary and Analysis

Smart water management (SWM) brings technological sophistication to water governance by providing monitoring, operational, and communications capacities through real-time information.

Seriously addressing the region’s plastic apocalypse will require moving beyond blunt moves such as plastic bag bans.

As the country splinters along geographic and ideological lines, post-election divisions could portend the rise of a new American city-state movement.

Given the rising global threats, turning inward is a politically expedient platform. But overcoming global challenges requires trust and cooperation.

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