An Urban Odyssey : A Critic's Search for the Soul of Cities and Self

Kaplan, Sam Hall

Cherry Orchard Books（2024/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798887195476
• DDC分類 B

Full Description

An evocative, candid reveal of the media and design worlds by an award-winning journalist and activist urban planner in search of the soul of cities and himself.

From the stoops of Brooklyn and the streets of East Harlem to the newsrooms of New York and Los Angeles, from the freeways of Southern California to the shores of Malibu, An Urban Odyssey traverses the award-winning author's seven decades in the media and the public and private sectors, as well as his time teaching and advocating for a more, equitable, livable city. Here, Sam Hall Kaplan regales readers with personal tales of his time at the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Fox Television, among others, interspersed with anecdotes of a host of the famed and ill-famed. A rollicking reveal of the vainglorious media and design worlds, candid and compelling.

Contents

Introduction

1. The Stoop, and City Beyond

2. Jobs and Bosses

3. Wide-Eyed and Bushy-Tailed

4. City Desk Diversions

5. Saint Jane of Planning

6. Good Times, Bad Times

7. Reality Bites

8. Dreams Deferred

9. Jumping Rock to Rock

10. Los Angeles Beckons

11. Welcome to the Land of Sunshine and Shadows

12. "L. A.'s The Place"

13. Persevering Preservation

14. Planning, for Better or Worse

15. The Art and Angst of Architecture

16. Moving On

17. Disney Hall and its Discontents

18. Critic at Bay

19. Tough Love Urban

20. Teaching as a Delight

21. Ever the Iconoclast 

22. Community Planning Challenged

23. Critic Unbound

24. Reading Architecture

25. Misanthropic Malibu

26. The Fire and the Aftermath

27. Democracy's Soft Underbelly

28. Going Forward

Afterthoughts

Index

About the Author