The Bloomberg Center for Cities, located in the Taubman Building at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, co-hosted an event on the current state of democracy and civic engagement. | By Ryan N. Gajarawala By Dev Karan and Fernando J. Leiva, Contributing Writers Michael C. Pollack, a professor at the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York, spoke about an unexpected cornerstone of democracy in light of the upcoming midterm elections: sidewalks.