The City in Mind: Meditations on the Urban Condition

In the highly acclaimed The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia a tragic landscape and fueled a fierce debate over how we will live in twenty-first-century America. Here, Kunstler turns his discerning eye to urban life in America and beyond in dazzling excursions to classical Rome, the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, Louis-Napoleon's Paris, the gigantic hairball that is contemporary Atlanta, the ludicrous spectacle of Las Vegas, and more. Seeking to discover what is constant and enduring in cities at their greatest, Kunstler explores how America got lost in suburban wilderness and locates pathways that might lead to civic revival. 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 condition

Author: James Howard Kunstler
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 01/07/2003
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.88w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9780743227230
ISBN10: 0743227239
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- History | Civilization

About the Author
James Howard Kunstler is the author of two previous nonfiction books, The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, and eight novels. His articles appear regularly in The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Slate, and Metropolis.