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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Preamble

City Light

By Lewis H. Lapham

When it comes to the medieval cathedral and mosque, the modern skyscraper and the slum, world history is city history.

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City of Seeds

By Daniel Mason

With an influx of people from all over the world, the city can become a hothouse for foreign flora.

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Map

City Narratives

The tumultuous histories of Algiers, Istanbul, Beijing, and Mexico City.

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1850 | Washington, DC

Body Politic

Henry Adams surveys life on the Hill.More

c. 335 BC | Athens

Pledge of Allegiance

Athenian youth swear an oath.More

c. 1936 | New York City

Blowing into Town

F. Scott Fitzgerald takes a bite of the Big Apple.More

Charts & Graphs

Workforce

A 1292 inventory of craftsmen in Paris.

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Engraving of Scottish economist Adam Smith.

Photograph of Soviet playwright and writer Mikhail Bulgakov.

Black and white photograph of Cuban poet, patriot, and martyr José Martí.

Engraving of the medieval Arab traveler Ibn Battuta.

Jules Verne

British author J.G. Ballard.

Greek dramatist Sophocles.

Novelist and psychiatrist Daniel Mason.

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

—Thucydides, 410 BC

Pliny the Younger & Georg Simmel

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