[continued from 84.8] Les Americanes When it comes to rocky love affairs there is also the on/off relationship between France and America that goes back to the French and Indian…
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CITIES & URBAN LIFE
Une Plume, un Cahier, un Café Many people go to Paris to write; or at least they seem to feel an obligation to write. Perhaps that is because as Henry…
In 1989 I lived in Paris while teaching at the University of Paris VII. I had to arrange my own housing and at first lived with an elderly Englishwoman in…
I really shouldn’t be weighing in on this for a couple of reasons (there probably are more than a couple), but things have been kind of quiet around here and…
Acculturation The relationship between immigrants and American cities has, on balance, been a reciprocally beneficial one. Immigrants have found opportunity in the city, and in turn have enriched its culture…
The Golden Door The drama of the American city was often a result of some of its internal contradictions. America might be the only nation in the world with a…
Cities were the first places to bring together peoples of different ethnic and racial backgrounds; hence the first places to test assimilation, tolerance, competition, and cooperation among different cultures. There…
I came to America because in the old country I had heard that the streets of America were “paved with gold.” But I learned three things after I arrived: First,…
A review of Portrait of Jennie and films of love found and lost in the City Is it every lonely, searching urban man’s fantasy, on turning some city street corner,…
Their corporate image was only slightly less ubiquitous than Coca-Cola’s, eye-catching crimson and yellow brand. Kodak. For people around the world it meant snapshots, 35mm slides, and badly exposed 8mm…