In this essay, Vishaan Chakrabarti argues for an alternative policy approach for the U.S. that tackles the fundamental challenges we face in an integrated, purposeful way with dense urban living at the heart of it.

He imagines leaders promoting “time-tested ideas of density and mass transportation, of cities…

With an enormous amount of space dedicated to lawn areas that consume 7 billion gallons of water a day, rising transportation costs detracting from food budgets, and only 2% of food grown locally, this competition urges a transition “from Mowing to Growing”.

The One Prize is a design competition for…