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Coming Soon: “The City”
The Fall edition of Lapham’s Quarterly lays the foundations of the world's greatest cities, from the modern metropolis to the ancient polis. In the issue, Jane Jacobs leaves her keys with the neighbors; Hernán Cortés marvels at Tenochitlán, the Aztec city of gold; Italo Calvino wades through fantastical trash heaps; Charles Babbage rages against street musicians; Samuel Pepys watches the Great Fire consume London, Jorge Luis Borges wonders in what city he will be buried, and Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo gets his first glimpse of the lost city of Atlantis.
We’ve got charts and graphs that count the number of rats in New York, the price of a cup of coffee in Moscow, the average commute for someone living in Mexico City, and the relative calorie counts of street food from all over the world. As always, we have fantastic new essays, including Colin Dickey on the ancient and modern disposal of the city’s dead, Daniel Mason on the encroachment of nature into the city, and New Yorker staff writer George Packer on Dickensian living in the slums of Lagos.
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I read with interest the news of your upcoming issue on "The City."
If Mr. Lapham doesn't have enough already on his plate, I would appreciate it if he took a look at a manuscript entitled "Engaging Strangers: Civil Rites, Civic Capitalism, and Public Life in an American City." Any comments he would care to share about it would be much appreciated. I dare say none of the prospective essays in that issue will tell the story I'm telling about the civic lives of contemporary Bostonians.
I can be reached at my university e-mail address.
djm
Posted by Dan Monti on Mon 18 Jul 2011