Next City is a national urban affairs magazine and non-profit organization based in Philadelphia.

The magazine, originally named The Next American City, was founded in late 2002 by former college classmates Seth Brown, Adam Gordon, and Anika Singh Lemar.

[1] The first issue was distributed in spring of 2003, receiving favorable coverage in The New York Times,[2] and The Baltimore Sun,[3] among others.

First based in New Haven, Connecticut, and later moving to its current hometown of Philadelphia, NAC operated as a quarterly print product for eight years.

Beginning in 2008, editor and publisher Diana Lind expanded Next City's events series to incorporate an annual leadership summit called "Vanguard"[4] and its new media conference "Open Cities: New Media's Role in Shaping Urban Policy.