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Witold Rybczynski, City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World (1995)
Why doesn't North America have a London or Paris? An architect-critic explains
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May 2
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Joan Didion, Miami (1987)
The late Slouching Towards Bethlehem author reports from less a "wicked pastel boomtown" than a bitter and paranoid tropical fever dream
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Apr 1
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In the Los Angeles Review of Books: Tokyo Junkie (Robert Whiting, 2021)
My latest piece for the Los Angeles Review of Books is on Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys… and Baseball, a memoir by American…
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Mar 28
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A. N. Wilson, London: A History (2004)
London is a world city. Los Angeles, where I used to live, is less a world city than, as I once saw a banner at the airport call it, a "city that's a…
Colin Marshall
Mar 16
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A. N. Wilson, London: A History (2004)
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Taras Grescoe, Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (2012)
I moved from Los Angeles to Seoul a bit over six years ago, and it wouldn't be much of an exaggeration to say I did so because Seoul has the better…
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Feb 22
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Taras Grescoe, Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (2012)
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Donald Richie, Tokyo: A View of the City (1999)
Donald Richie closes his most personal book on Tokyo by quoting from his own diary. The entry dates from the summer of 1978, more than twenty years…
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Feb 1
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Shawn Micallef, Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness (2017)
I've just returned from a few weeks in Toronto, a city with which I find myself in a not-quite-expected relationship. It started seven years ago, when a…
Colin Marshall
Nov 21, 2021
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On Archinect: Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Reyner Banham, 1971)
Even though I moved to Los Angeles 40 years after the publication of Reyner Banham’s Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, the book still…
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Oct 28, 2021
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Jonathan Raban, Soft City (1974)
Luchino Visconti's White Nights (Le notti bianche) loosely adapts the eponymous Dostoevsky short story, transposing it from Saint Petersburg into the…
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Oct 11, 2021
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In the New Yorker: Becoming Los Angeles (D.J. Waldie, 2021)
In my latest New Yorker piece, I consider Holy Land author D.J. Waldie’s latest book, Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place: In 1993…
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Aug 11, 2021
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Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) (2008)
Malcolm Gladwell once described his typical reader as "a 45-year-old guy with three kids who’s an engineer at some company outside of Atlanta." That…
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Jul 25, 2021
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Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) (2008)
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In the MIT Technology Review: three books on Los Angeles
The MIT Technology Review recently put out an issue on cities. When asked for a contribution, I realized I could take the opportunity to write an essay…
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Jun 30, 2021
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