Ebook {Epub PDF} The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition by James Howard Kunstler

His authoritative tour is both a concise history of cities and a stunning critique of how they can aid or hinder social and civil progress. By turns dramatic and comic, The City in Mind is an exceptional glimpse into the urban www.doorway.ru by: 6.  · Book Notes. The strength of this book is its tour of the urban history, cultural geography, and architecture in eight cities. The main point is that the twentieth century city has often been terribly brutal to people--unnecessarily--through ignorance of history and human needs. The chapters highlight the lessons each city can teach.  · The City in Mind continues in the same vein as Kunstler's previous non-fiction works (Geography of Nowhere, etc.) with criticism of the oil dependent modern American city and praise for classicism. Kunstler examines the histories and current (as of ) predicaments and successes of eight cities--Paris, Atlanta, Mexico City, Berlin, Las Vegas, Rome, Boston, and London/5(28).

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Kunstler's examination of these cities is at once a concise history of their urban lives and a detailed criticism of how those histories have either aided or hindered the social and civil progress. The City In Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition. James Howard Kunstler. Published by Free Press, ISBN ISBN The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition by James Howard Kunstler (, Trade Paperback, Reprint).