The Other Grid at 200
4 January 2012 | Hidden City Daily
Reading the cities’ futures in the meaning of their grids. One city’s grid Utopia, the other’s a “creative template.”
Posts tagged with “New York City”
Dark Sleeve of History No More
3 April 2011
But the story didn’t begin in 1919, which is the very point of two new books, one centered in New York, the other in Philadelphia. One must pull the curtain back even as far back as the late 18th century.
Review of The City’s End
1 March 2009 | The Pennsylvania Gazette
Max Page is the scholarly observer of New York’s destruction, its gleeful and energetic documentarian. In the wonderfully illustrated The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction, he examines the fictional destructions of New York, those in art, film, and fiction.
A Pennsylvania Spy in Tunis
20 June 2008 | Philly Skyline
French cities — and Tunis was one for a time — have benefited from a planning technique that allows a city to grow without demolishing and building over the old. Critically, Haussmann ignored this technique when he built Paris’s 19th century boulevards, but more modern planners have embraced it.
“Summer’s Crossing”
27 February 2008
In this Modernist story of a person apart, Capote sends up the trope of rich girl searching, swerving off course. What does her in? Landing in the “exotic,” “intimate” worlds of Brooklyn Jews and Harlem blacks.