Navigator: The Novelist Who Captured Urban Anxieties

Today’s musing comes from CityLab Executive Editor David Dudley, who reflects on a recently departed prolific novelist:

How advertising conquered urban space. ¤ Blink and they’re something different: the rise of pop-up shops. ¤ The Paris Metro needs more room for riders. ¤ If you still have your Halloween pumpkin, smash it... for the environment. ¤ An old map of Denver becomes a newcomer’s guide. ¤ In science fiction, utopia is a lost art. Speaking of which, meet a largely forgotten utopian architect. ¤ Navigation apps and the “price of anarchy.” ¤ Climate change needs a better narrative, and Sweden’s chief storyteller has an idea.