24 October 2008
By trumping what appear to be long-held assumptions about self-identity, rapid urbanization engenders the cultural divide. It happened famously in the late 19th century in both Europe and North America—but also Japan.
4 April 2008 | Philly Skyline
I’ve only missed two Philadelphia springs since 1988, the last being a decade ago, in 1998. Beau Monde, at 6th and Bainbridge, opened then, while I was bungling French at photo school in Paris and my wife Rona was learning how to make sauces at the Ritz Escoffier.
4 January 2008
She has ideas, typology, argument, terrific examples, wonderful detail founded in thorough research and here in Cosmopolitan Culture she makes her statement, so why has she abandoned the field?
27 November 2007
“It is not for me to ponder what is happening to ‘the shape of the city,’ even of the true city distracted and abstracted from the one I live in by the force of an element which is to my mind what air is supposed to be to life,” writes André Breton toward the end of Nadja.