CITIES & URBAN LIFE

In obvious deference to the widespread civil disturbances in America’s cities ignited this time by the heinous murder of African-American George Floyd by members of the Minneapolis Police Force, the…

The pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong refer to their police as the “po-po,” a rather innocent-sounding sobriquet for a force that has unfortunately transmogrified into a militarily outfitted and thuggish…

  There have been several Quasimodos, even a cute Disney animated version. The best known were played by Lon Chaney Charles Laughton, Anthony Quinn, and Anthony Hopkins. The movie lore is…

I might be doing something wrong—nobody has tried to muzzled me, to shut down Dragon City Journal, although somebody did comment recently that I should just “shut up” (it was…

  The world knows that people were murdered at Paris cafés and other places this past weekend. Much has been said and written, and will be, about these horrific events, but I…

The following is excerpted from a chapter on teaching in China in a book in progress by the author.   I had been doing a lot of lecturing about planning…

There were seven screenwriters on Casablanca.  Chances are that at least one of them had a romantic experience in Paris that resulted in Bogart’s doleful line to Bergman that “we…

Making a case for a politically independent Hong Kong might seem, at first blush, to contradict geography, ethnicity, and culture—although it is the last of these, that is not determined…

For an urbanist such as myself the prospect of observing, in 1997, the “handover” of sovereignty of a major world city from one country to another was an unusual opportunity. …

This is a slightly revised  paper that I presented at the National Meetings of the American Institute of Planners, Atlanta, Georgia 1973, Introduction Probably from the time of the very…