Too Long; Didn't Read
54% of the world’s population now <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS" target="_blank">lives in cities</a>, and more humans move to urban areas every day. But with voters and power concentrated in metropolitan areas, are nations holding cities back? Democracy was designed to rule a city, after all — Athens. Maybe we’ve stretched the democratic system further than it was meant to be expanded? Could we let democracy function at its optimum scale — the city — while finding some other way to organize on a federal level?