Government
Where Gerrymandering Is Containing City Power
To resist the current political peril, just boost the urban voter turnout, right? Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.
Throughout this week, CityLab is running a series on borders—both real and imagined—and what draws so many of us to places on the edge.
That cities’ voter-turnout game is mad weak is an unassailable truth. The urban sector may do a lot of things better than rural and suburban areas, but getting constituents to the polling booths is not one of them. There are plenty of explanations for why that is, but there is no good excuse for why that should remain the norm.