The City in Mind: Meditations on the Urban Condition - James Howard Kunstler

Descriere The City in Mind: Meditations on the Urban Condition - James Howard Kunstler

The highly opinionated author of The Geography of Nowhere now turns his attention to eight cities here and abroad, issuing an engaging report on their state at the turn of the new century. 15 illustrations. \nIn the highly acclaimed The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia a tragic landscape and fueled a fierce debate over how we will live in twenty-first-century America. Here, Kunstler turns his discerning eye to urban life in America and beyond in dazzling excursions to classical Rome, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, Louis-Napoleon's Paris, the gigantic hairball that is contemporary Atlanta, the ludicrous spectacle of Las Vegas, and more. Seeking to discover what is constant and enduring in cities at their greatest, Kunstler explores how America got lost in suburban wilderness and locates pathways that might lead to civic revival. His authoritative tour is both a concise history of cities and a stunning critique of how they can aid or hinder social and civil progress. By turns dramatic and comic, The City in Mind is an exceptional glimpse into the urban condition.

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Free Press

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9780743227230

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1

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