Onto the Author Salon
8 February 2012
The process so far has proven enormously useful in helping me to conceptualize the novel and talk about it coherently.
Posts tagged with “Song Of The City”
Northern Liberties: Destitute Urban Carnival Reborn!
3 June 2011
A smart (and funny) exploration of a rapidly changing urban neighborhood, the Northern Liberties, by artist John Thornton. Interviews with artists, neighbors, and urban observers, including me.
Northern Liberties: A Transformation
31 May 2011
This Friday at 6PM I return to Frank’s world for the opening of an art show: “Northern Liberties: A Transformation” at the Projects Gallery at 629 N. 2nd organized by Jennifer Baker. I’ll read selections from Song of the City. Plus there will be a viewing of a film about the neighborhood by John Thornton.
“Good City Form”
13 November 2007
Lynch, who spent his career at MIT, taught us how to read cities and to understand how they are used and perceived. His hope was to build a theory of city form that derived from this observation; Good City Form, which he completed at the end of his career, is the result. It is a great synthesis, and in its attempt to understand cities as sacred, as machines, as organisms, he allows us to see how we ascribe meaning to the city’s built environment.