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

City of Seeds

Daniel Mason

Dickens in Lagos

George Packer

Waiting for Goffman

Michael Dirda

Urban Scrawl

Jamie James

A Matter of Optics

Warren Breckman

Necropolis

Colin Dickey

Map

City Narratives

Miscellany

Voices In Time

The Scene Almost Staggers

1920 | San Francisco

Traffic Pattern

c. 1846 | Walden Pond

Examining the Costs of Production

1844 | London

Vanity Fair

1877 | United States

Census

c. 330 BC | Athens

Divine Plan

325 | Constantinople

Blueprint

c. 25 BC | Rome

Public Square

360 | Antioch

Never Can There Come a Fog Too Thick

c. 1835 | London

Mixed Media

1898 | London

City Planning

c. 540 | Constantinople

Nothing Is Equal

1520 | Tenochtitlán

Most Horrid, Malicious, Bloody Flame

1666 | London

Job Search

1889 | Chicago

Tourist Destination

1840 | Venice

Shopping Mall

c. 1185 | England

Street Noise

c. 1864 | London

Dens of Iniquity

1700 | London

Blowing into Town

c. 1936 | New York City

Fare Hike

1949 | Boston

Import, Export

1776 | Glasgow

Honest Graft

1905 | New York City

Assaying a Crowd

c. 1821 | Paris

Burial Grounds

1708 | London

Commonwealth

c. 1200 BC | Athens

The Character Remains

1866 | Atlantis

Among the Best

1844 | Manchester

Body Politic

1850 | Washington, DC

Waste Management

2008 | New York City

Mud and Mules

1849 | San Francisco

Pledge of Allegiance

c. 335 BC | Athens

Ancien Régime

1883 | Los Angeles

Luxury

c. 1250 | Saba

Charts and Graphs

Workforce

Town Meetings

When in Rome

Welcome to Levittown

Turf Wars

Welcome to...

City Works

Lost Cities

Contributors

Conversations

Pliny the Younger & Georg Simmel

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