[Note: This piece is Part II of The Sustainability of Shangri-La] “We need a balanced approach,” to fixing our economic problems we heard the President saying time and again in…
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CITIES & URBAN LIFE
“The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces .…
(a reprise from DCJ Archives, 11.2.2003) For a variety of reasons I’ve never cared much for the month of November. But rather than go into that, I enclose a piece…
The great Lower Manhattan Mosque Brouhaha (LMMB) seems, at first, like plainly a contest between the principled and the pig-headed. By now we all know, but some remain unwilling to…
I first wrote about these places in my 1971 book,* when such developments were in their infancy on the American urban landscape. My first actual encounter with one was when…
When going through cities Go, I advise you In a stately manner Ride handsomely Head slightly bowed It’s not urbane To move without restraint And don’t stare at the height…
A dual review of Crash (2004) and Gran Torino (2009) With the meltdown of the American economy since 2008, the further withering of employment in the almost vestigial manufacturing sector immigrants, documented or…
I am prompted to my theme by a restaurant review I just read about a place in San Diego that claims to sense authentic Jersey cheese steak sandwiches. Got that…
The media bring an almost sinister regularity to catastrophic events such as the recent earthquake in Haiti. First, just the brief news of location and a Richter registration; then the…
If there is one thing I know (and it probably is the one thing I know), it is cities. I made my living knowing about cities for over four decades as a…