City State

CITY-STATE is an online essay series and print pamphlet featuring seven writers. It’s a collaborative project exploring autonomous governance including the future of the US, why countries should actually be made up of lots of smaller countries, how we can build new cities and bring power to local governance, how we can turn our communities into garden cities, and how we can create a new geopolitical landscape of borderless polities that benefit us all.

Essays include:

• US states should be autonomous (like EU countries) by Elle Griffin
• Multi-country civilizations are good, actually by Étienne Fortier-Dubois
• It’s time for Thomas Jefferson’s “village-states” by Bryce Tolpen
• Should we create more US states? by Elle Griffin
• Why we should build new American cities by Jeff Fong
• Maybe villages are our future—not cities by Elle Griffin
• Grassroots movements are building garden cities by Stephen Mackintosh
• What if your side hustle is being in Congress? by J.K. Lund
• Digital nomads could create network states by Olivier Roland
• How we achieve the borderless future of Terra Ignota by Elle Griffin