History of the Present

The city that was the global epicenter of the Industrial Revolution is now being remade by globalized post-industrial capital. This is one of the great spectacles of contemporary Britain.

An unpopular president, a myth-making architect, and a multibillionaire tycoon build a giant airport in a nature preserve.

Belgradians have endured bombings, sanctions, flood, and political tumult. Now can they survive global real estate?

As the post-Castro era looms, Havana is poised between impoverishment and the specter of rapacious redevelopment.

Emerging from a half century of dictatorship, can Myanmar’s principal city be a model of sustainable, democratic development?