The American City

A city divides into forms and attitudes, into significances, in the most political of senses, into episodic impressions, grand narratives and great collective generalizations. Cities are the vehicles for vivid nostalgia and are often the victims of banal cliche, both in the making of their form and in the way they are perceived. They are collaborative works, and, like works of art, they are conceived passionately, formed imperfectly, understood and misread by a continually transforming and distracted collective. Cities embody myth and fact, blurring the border between the two. All this applies especially to the fraught history and troubled body of the American city.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.1995.9

Volume Editors
John K. Edwards