Places

On the way from the old Brooklyn to the new, branded, post-industrial Brooklyn, the city got lost.

For the first time in decades, Angelinos have taken a profound interest in their own Los Angeles River, reclaiming parts of its concrete-lined course as parks and bike paths and plotting its rebirth. The river’s history shows that history is cyclical, not linear.

As the bioengineering of people and cities converges, where do we locate the public sphere?

Urban theorists and tech accelerators are asking what cities would look like if people built new ones from the ground up with innovation and the internet at their core, but can we treat cities the way we treat startups and technology?