Reads tagged with “cities”
The Rocket Book: A Conceptually Ingenious, Stunningly Illustrated 1912 Children’s Book About Urban Living
An irreverent wink at the challenge of separate lives sharing space in the city.
Urbanism Patron Saint Jane Jacobs on Our Civic Duty in Cultivating Cities That Foster a Creative Life
“People ought to pay more attention to their instincts.”
Bright Sky, Starry City: An Illustrated Love Letter to Our Communion with the Cosmos, Celebrating Women Astronomers
A warm and wonderful ode to the universe for the modern urban astronomer.
What Makes a Great City: E.B. White on the Poetics of New York
“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry.”
A Love Letter to the City
How artist Steve Powers made sign painting the voice of the community and the shared narrative of urban life.
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise. Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person.”
Every Person in New York, Illustrated
From sleeping strangers to subway cellists to Nick Cave, a loving portrait of a city whose vibrant vitality never stands still.
How New York Became New York: A Love Letter to Jane Jacobs, Tucked Inside a Graphic Biography of Robert Moses
How two titans faced off to shape the ideal of the modern metropolis.
Meanwhile: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Living Fabric of a City and Our Shared Human Longing to Be Understood
A tender reminder that however vast our differences, we are bonded by the yearning to feel seen for who we are.
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