In any delivery system, the final leg is often the hardest. Michael Degani takes to the streets of Dar es Salaam to explore the “last-mile problem” of Tanzania’s energy grid.

Claudio Aporta, Stephanie C. Kane, and Aldo Chircop explore the conceptual and lived tensions around ice in Arctic straits. They show how one group’s obstacle can be another group’s means of connection.

Jatin Dua reveals why Djibouti’s history, geography, and precarious present make it a site where national sovereignty and chokepoint dynamics are intimately tied.

In 2016, French authorities bulldozed the migrant camp known as ‘the Jungle’ at the mouth of the Chunnel. In 2017, migrants returned. Photographer Eric Leleu and anthropologist Vincent Joos combine images and words to humanize this chokepoint and counter its infrastructures of invisibility.

Christopher Jones explores how oilmen have used conduits as weapons to crush competitors, maintain industry dominance, and rake in huge profits.

Traffic impedes. But does it also enable? Townsend Middleton traces the cat-and-mouse interplays of trafficking and regulation in one of South Asia’s most notorious chokepoints: India’s Chicken Neck.

Every network has its chokepoints. Nicole Starosielski brings us under the ocean to explore the hidden ones along the information superhighway.

The editors of Limn 10 challenge you to think about "chokepoints" as simultaneously geographical and deeply social phenomena.

How did little development devices make their way into big development institutions? Jacqueline Best explores the history of policy failure at the World Bank.

Anke Schwittay and Paul Braund explore the curious intersection between international aid and design.

Christopher Kelty opens up a toolkit from the 1990s to explore the prehistory of apps, platforms, and algorithms.

Robert Foster explores how mobile phones in Papua New Guinea offer new ways for both companies and consumers to give and receive care.

David Reubi explores how Chicago Economics remade Global Public Health.

Tatiana Thieme explores how doing your business has become an opportunity for business in Nairobi.

Meena Khandelwal and Kayley Lain reflect on half a century of failed efforts to change how people cook in rural India, before adding a little device of their own to the fire.

Amy Moran-Thomas examines why diabetes patients worldwide still struggle to measure glucose.

Tom Scott-Smith gets inside an award-winning shelter designed for refugees and asks: what makes it any better than a tent?

Austin Lord considers the unstable politics of micro-hydropower development in the wake of Nepal’s 2015 earthquake.

Jonathan Morduch traces the rise of microfinance, and argues that it's time for a new vision.

Alice Street examines the market infrastructure behind off-grid diagnostics.

Jamie Cross explores how a solar-powered lamp became the go-to solution to Puerto Rico’s energy crisis.

Brenda Chalfin reflects on the use of design as a little development device.

Xhulio Binjaku  explores the role of the model in upholding regimes of power, expertise, and commerce and explains the inspiration for Excrementa Estates.

Brenda Chalfin and Xhulio Binjaku imagine designs for the future with Dwelling-Based Public Toilets in Urban Ghana.