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Article: City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World.
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- Commonweal
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- February 23, 1996
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Although his books are shelved in the architecture section, Witold Rybczynski is really an uncommonly curious and nimble cultural critic. His latest book, as one might expect from its title, is first of all a book about cities. In it he proposes that from the first colonial settlements to the port cities of the Federal period, from frontier towns to today's vast metropolitan areas and malls, Americans' expectations for the places where they live have always been urban, and that this trait has helped to distinguish American cities from European ones. Such an argument requires a broad definition of "urban," one that includes New York, Toronto, the upstate New York town of ...
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