City in Mind Notes on the Urban Condition

Name: City in Mind Notes on the Urban Condition
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ISBN: 9780743227230

ISBN-10: 0743227239

ISBN-13: 9780743227230

Edition: 2003 (Reprint)

Authors: James Howard Kunstler

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In 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…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 1/7/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface


Paris: The Achievements of Napoleon III and Georges Eugene Haussman


Atlanta: Does Edge City Have a Future?


Mexico City: The End of the World and Other Cataclysms


Berlin: The Paradoxes of History


Las Vegas: Utopia of Clowns


Rome: In Search of the Classical


Boston: Overcoming History and Modernism


London: Landscape as the Cure for Cities


Notes


Index