Cities— Feature
Shade Is a Public Utility
Shade has never appeared on a municipal asset register. A handful of cities are now mapping it street by street, and discovering how unevenly it is distributed.
Urban Desk
Cities
Housing, transit, water, heat, and the negotiated compromise of living close to strangers. Our correspondents file from the block, not the podium.
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Cities— Dispatch
The Drain Crew of Ward Nine
The difference between a wet week and a flooded ward is often six people with hooks and a schedule. A dispatch from the pre-monsoon clearing season.
Cities— Report
Where the Bus Actually Goes
A month of vehicle position data set against the published timetable reveals a bus network that is reliable on paper and structurally late where it matters most.
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The desk
Who files for Cities
Adeyemi Oduya
Runs the East Africa desk and the magazine’s standards process.
Priya Raghunathan
Reports on housing, heat, and how dense places stay livable.
Staff Photographer
Teodor Brandt
Photographs work, weather, and the places where both are visible.
Design Editor
Santiago Vela
Reads objects, interfaces, and public space as arguments.
The Dispatch
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Not a digest. One piece from the archive or the week ahead, with a note from the editor on why it was worth the reporting time.