Vishaan Chakrabarti
Contributing Writer
Vishaan Chakrabarti is an architect, urbanist and author based in New York City. He is a Vital City contributing writer. Chakrabarti’s latest book is The Architecture of Urbanity (2024). He is also the author of A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America (2013).
Contributions
The Power, Woker
What does a play about Robert Moses tell us about urban planning, both then and now?
The City is My Lover
How New York City came to consume me.
All of the Marigold, Little of the Meaning
On ‘Monsoon Wedding: The Musical’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse
A Renewed Colossus: Within 10 Years, Let’s House 10 Million New Yorkers
The city, state and feds must push as never before to build housing here
A One City Solution
At a time of intense Jewish-Palestinian tension, New York City can model coexistence
Build Better for Bicyclists
As car commuters pay more, the City should improve streets for people
City Beautiful, City Ugly
On the indignities and unpleasantness New Yorkers endure — and the collective progressive shrug in response
Make Design Matter Again
What will it take for the powers that be in New York to take the architecture and planning community as seriously as they did after 9/11?
Towering, Timely and Trite
An architect dissects Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project, ‘Megalopolis’
The Fires This Time
A New Yorker mourns the conflagrations engulfing Los Angeles.
Yes to Abundance, Yes to Nuance, Yes to Excellence
How to meaningfully build on the newest buzzword in policy and politics
The Quality of Quantity
Bloodless counts of the numbers of units created miss something essential.