The Ideal City, attributed to Fra Carnevale, c. 1482. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

The Ideal City, attributed to Fra Carnevale, c. 1482. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

The City

Volume III, Number 4 | fall 2010

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City Light

Lewis H. Lapham

Necropolis

Colin Dickey

A Matter of Optics

Warren Breckman

City of Seeds

Daniel Mason

Waiting for Goffman

Michael Dirda

Dickens in Lagos

George Packer

Urban Scrawl

Jamie James

Map

City Narratives

Miscellany

Voices In Time

Waste Management

2008 | New York City

Tourist Destination

1840 | Venice

Import, Export

1776 | Glasgow

Never Can There Come a Fog Too Thick

c. 1835 | London

Among the Best

1844 | Manchester

Job Search

1889 | Chicago

Street Noise

c. 1864 | London

Pledge of Allegiance

c. 335 BC | Athens

Vanity Fair

1877 | United States

Ancien Régime

1883 | Los Angeles

Luxury

c. 1250 | Saba

Public Square

360 | Antioch

Commonwealth

c. 1200 BC | Athens

Burial Grounds

1708 | London

Examining the Costs of Production

1844 | London

City Planning

c. 540 | Constantinople

Mixed Media

1898 | London

Divine Plan

325 | Constantinople

Mud and Mules

1849 | San Francisco

Census

c. 330 BC | Athens

Traffic Pattern

c. 1846 | Walden Pond

Most Horrid, Malicious, Bloody Flame

1666 | London

The Scene Almost Staggers

1920 | San Francisco

Assaying a Crowd

c. 1821 | Paris

Blueprint

c. 25 BC | Rome

Body Politic

1850 | Washington, DC

Honest Graft

1905 | New York City

Shopping Mall

c. 1185 | England

The Character Remains

1866 | Atlantis

Blowing into Town

c. 1936 | New York City

Fare Hike

1949 | Boston

Nothing Is Equal

1520 | Tenochtitlán

Dens of Iniquity

1700 | London

Charts and Graphs

Welcome to Levittown

Town Meetings

Turf Wars

When in Rome

Lost Cities

City Works

Welcome to...

Workforce

Contributors

Conversations

Pliny the Younger & Georg Simmel

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