City Lit: The War on Cities
Keith Kloor |
A book review of Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950, By Robert M. Fogelson, Yale University Press, $35, 492 pages.
City Lit: The Power Mediocre
Michael Hirsch |
A book review of The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York by Vincent J. Cannato, Basic Books, 2001. 579 pages. $35.
City Lit: Heavy Suburban
Keith Kloor |
A book review of How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken, by Alex Marshall University of Texas Press, 269 pages, $24.95.
City Lit: Family Ties
Suri Duitc |
A book review of The Lost Children of Wilder, By Nina Bernstein, Pantheon, 482 pages, $27.50.
Citywide
City Lit: Cities of Hope
Darren Walker |
A book review of Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival, by Paul S. Grogan and Tony Proscio, Westview Press, 268 pages, $25.
City Lit: Petticoat Function
Keith Meatto |
A book review of How Women Saved the City, by Daphne Spain, University of Minnesota Press, 288 pages, $34.95.
Citywide
City Lit: Now and Then
Roger Sanjek |
A book review of From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration, by Nancy Foner, Yale University Press, 336 pages, $29.95.
Citywide
City Lit: Another World
City Limits |
A book review of American Project: The Rise and Fall of an American Ghetto, by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Harvard University Press, $29.95.
Staten Island
City Lit: Morals of Muck
Robert E. Sullivan |
A book review of Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York. The Last Two Hundred Years, by Benjamin Miller, Four Walls Eight Windows, $18.
City Lit: Black in Brooklyn
Michael Hirsch |
A book review of A Covenant With Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn, by Craig Steven Wilder, Columbia University Press, $35.
