The Atlantic Monthly

Atlantic correspondent Cristine Russell takes a look at Mexico City's quickly-implemented bus rapid transit system.

The Atlantic Monthly reviews a new book on architect Oscar Niemeyer and his work that- like the infamous city of Brasilia- "continues to enchant and appall students of architecture and urban planning."

Urbanists lament the cookie-cutter retail landscape, but the fact remains that national chains provide the types of goods and services that consumers want.

A feature length article explores life in The Green Zone -- the four-square mile, heavily secured "American bubble in Baghdad."

A new United Nations commission is formed to examine the remarkably complex issue of migration worldwide.

We restore many public structures -- post offices, hotels, libraries, even churches. But most malls are too ugly to warrant such effort.

Israel has developed a practical and dispassionate approach to cleaning up after terror bombings.

Relive planning history in Robert Moses' attack on Lewis Mumford from January, 1962 in The Atlantic Monthly.

Genetic engineering of foods is poised to feed humanity. Except that the environmentalists won't let it.

A growing number of anthropologists now believe that North American prior to Columbus' arrival was dotted with impressive cities and towns.

Most of that land in the US is not where the people are, or are headed. Cities on the coasts are overcrowded; rural heartland communities are dying.

Former Atlantic Monthly columnist John Muir would have had a few choice words for President Bush's loosening of commercial restrictions in America's national forests.

Perhaps school vouchers don't improve schools. However, they do improve neighborhoods, writes Jonathan Rauch.

Witold Rybczynski writes in The Atlantic Monthly that public architecture competitions don't always produce the best buildings.

Readers debate a recent Atlantic Monthly article on The Mall of America. Is the scale of development troubling?

Peter Davison reviews a book that reveals Rome as the Romans know it -- as the eternal city.

An Atlantic Monthly writer was the only journalist to have unrestricted access to the clean-up effort, and details the story.

Creating artificial societies requires a lot of math and high-powered computing, but yields some interesting results.

Atlantic Monthly flashes back to January, 1962, with an essay by Robert Moses on what was wrong (and right) with America's cities.

Has America's affluence and comfort -- personified by the suburban dream -- left the country too weak to fight a war?