The Ideal City, attributed to Fra Carnevale, c. 1482. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

The Ideal City, attributed to Fra Carnevale, c. 1482. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

The City

Volume III, Number 4 | fall 2010

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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Dickens in Lagos

By George Packer

In Nigeria, modernity hasn’t yet begun to solve the problems of people thrown together in the urban cauldron.

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City Narratives

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

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1700 | London

Dens of Iniquity

Coffee talk with Thomas Browne.More

1898 | London

Mixed Media

Ebenezer Howard and the marriage of town and country.More

1949 | Boston

Fare Hike

Trapped in the Boston subway.More

Charts & Graphs

Workforce

A 1292 inventory of craftsmen in Paris.

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British inventor and mathematician Charles Babbage.

German philosopher Oswald Spengler.

Russian poet Andrei Bely.

American-Canadian author William Gibson.

German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel.

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

American civil war general William Tecumseh Sherman.

American poet and novelist Helen Hunt Jackson.

The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.

- Édouard Manet, c. 1860

Pliny the Younger & Georg Simmel

Lapham’sDaily

Roundtable

Glossary: Fear

By Leopold Froehlich

From “alarm” to “worry,” the language of fear. More

DÉjÀ Vu

Apropos of Nothing

2017:

The Trump administration lies about terrorist attacks.

c. 1517:

Machiavelli assures “fraud is fair in war.”

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LQ Podcast

#06 Ed Yong

Discovering communities of microbes that exists within us. More

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