November 15, 2010
Skyscrapers of the Dead
While vertical cemeteries may seem like a radical proposition to relieve urban areas, they were first suggested by nineteenth-century cemetery reformers.
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Opinions and analysis from Lapham’s Quarterly writers and editors.
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November 09, 2010
The Renaissance of City-States
Renaissance Italy was a patchwork of city-states, each controlled with varying degrees of tyranny and liberty.
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November 01, 2010
China’s Instant Cities, Thirty Years On
When China began aggressive economic and urban development in the 1980s, the character of its cities changed forever.
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October 04, 2010
The Master Architect
In 1974 Albert Speer recalled Hitler’s tour of the great European cities, and the Führer’s plan to reshape Berlin as his empire’s new Rome.
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September 28, 2010
Santiago, Boom Town
The capital of Chile is experiencing an architectural boom that may only widen the gap between rich and poor.
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September 27, 2010
The Wrestler Princess
The Mongolian princess who was the inspiration for Turandot rejected any man she deemed athletically inferior.
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September 27, 2010
The Last of the Floating Worlds
The floating city, by water or air, can be a libertarian escape or an environmental utopia.
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September 17, 2010
Every City Has a Sex and an Age
Is Paris a young man in love or London an charming orphan? We asked the internet the sex and age of their hometown or adopted city.
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August 24, 2010
This Tennis Life
Andre Agassi’s literary memoir is a sports book that even David Foster Wallace could have loved.
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August 07, 2023
Monumental Mistakes
2023:
Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
c. 1850:
Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.
May 22, 2023
Revolutionary Lovebirds
2023:
Writers on strike search for romance at the picket line.
c. 1945:
Young communists engage in party matchmaking.