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New York, New York dall’inizio

E' il ventennale dell'11 Settembre: un evento che volenti o nolenti ha segnato per sempre chi lo ha osservato, grazie a una potenza visuale smisurata. I fatti - le migliaia di morti, la beffa ai sistemi di sicurezza della prima forza di…

New York City, twenty years on

Every year at the beginning of September, two beams of light rise from the southern tip of Manhattan, shooting four miles up into New York City’s sky. They mimic the shape of the World Trade Center and its Twin Towers, and for the week…

Urban power: still strong but humbler?

The COVID-19 crisis has been and is a crisis of the state, in the sense of a critical moment of transformation for the state. National governments have been back on the stage, with unprecedented strength as they have reshaped geographies –…