Joseph Rykwert, Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty-First Century, The Dancing Column (Schocken Books, 2000; paperback forthcoming from Phoenix Press in October, 2001) An expansive and detailed social history of some of the great cities of the modern world — such as New Delhi, Islamabad, Australia's Canberra, Brasilia, Paris, and New York — from biblical times to modern Bilbao. Do we have the cities we need, he asks, and if not, what can we do to create them? MORE: The New Republic book review Amazon |
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