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

You can follow our projects live on The Elysian: https://www.elysian.press/