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Architect, urbanist, writer and New York's éminence grise Michael Sorkin laments the lacuna of politic radical thought that he sees in the nostalgia for the 1960s and 1970s avant‐garde, appropriated purely for its form‐making, and warns that our historic navel‐gazing will not solve anything.

What would happen if New York became a self‐sufficient city state, entirely self‐reliant in terms of food, waste, energy, movement, manufacture, building, water and clean air? Michael Sorkin provides a masterplan for the metropolis with an ecological footprint that coincides with its political boundaries. Controversially, he explores the possibilities of urban autonomy and what the necessary steps might be in transforming a city's form.