Businessweek + CityLab The Cities Issue

The US declared the end of the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency on May 11, 2023. If only closure were so simple for cities, where most of the world’s people live and work. The pandemic tested key systems such as public transit and commercial real estate. Full recovery remains on the to-do list even as cities also address criminal justice and the ever-worsening impact of climate change.

In these pages, Bloomberg Businessweek and our colleagues at Bloomberg CityLab take a broad look at what cities are facing and explore ideas to improve them. We travel to some of the world’s most famous cities—and others you’ve probably never heard of—with dispatches on the impacts of political intrigue, environmental uncertainty and shifts in the global economy.

It’s not all doom and gloom. Cities are exciting, weird, dynamic places, and our writers capture their magic by riding along on bustling golf cart paths in Georgia, examining the vertical graveyards of Hong Kong and visiting the new villas rising in Jericho, the oldest city on Earth. —Joshua Brustein, senior editor