USA
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Saturday, 11 Jul 2009 | Views [74]
Many people, but especially Calvino, have written of the formlessness of Los Angeles; the endless centreless sprawling web of streets and roads and sub suburban housing.
And indeed at many levels this is true. There is no single plaza train ... Read more >
Saturday, 4 Jul 2009 | Views [78]
In San Francisco you reach finally the Pacific, that vast unquiet ocean whose waves hammer also on my next and then final destinations, New Zealand and Australia. The water is cold, and wreaths the land in layers of fog and mist that separate the ... Read more >
Saturday, 27 Jun 2009 | Views [150]
Chicago has two tall buildings. Actually it has many, for its downtown rivals only Manhattan for density, but two stand above the rest in their efforts to thrust up into the sky.
One, the Sears Tower, was for many years the tallest in the world.... Read more >
Saturday, 20 Jun 2009 | Views [80]
In the 1950s Philadelphia was one of the largest cities in the USA, and in the previous century had even briefly eclipsed New York as the largest in the country. Then began a slow, catastrophic decline that saw its population contract by 40% from ... Read more >
Saturday, 13 Jun 2009 | Views [123] | Comments [1]
New York, while not infinite, at least aspires to that
condition, and the narrow island of Manhattan is filled with regular
rectangular iterations of crystalline concrete growth, rhomboid and enormous at
the northern and southern ends, and dipping ... Read more >
