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Open City
Alphabet City 6
Illustrations
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320 pages
0-88784-6211
$24.95 CDN
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Vanity Fair has hailed Alphabet City as one of the best avant-garde magazines around. Now in book form, the sixth issue, Open City, is an investigation into the city: its nature, its possible futures, its emergence as one of the most contested economic, cultural, and political sites of our time.
The range of contributors is as diverse and dynamic as the cities they examine, inhabit, and haunt: philosopher Jacques Derrida reflects on the fate of Prague; playwright Richard Sanger presents a drama set in war-torn Sarajevo; poet Lynn Crosbie explores Toronto's hidden corners in an epic ABC; architecture theorist and mayor of Venice Massimo Cacciari discusses Naples and the new Europe; novelist André Alexis reveals mystical tropes beneath that sleepy capital, Ottawa; and architecture theorist Paul Virilio discusses the political dangers lurking in cyberspace. Other contributors include novelist Catherine Bush, Harvard architecture professor Rodolphe el-Khoury, architect Farshid Moussavi, artist Krystof Wodiczko, and many more.
Open City continues Alphabet City's legacy of intelligent, provocative discourse and striking design, while creating a deeply engaging terrain all of its own.
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A thoughtful and dynamic exploration of the urban sphere in all its permutations . . . [that] will change the way you look at the structures surrounding you.
- SHIFT
There is here, from spine to credit page, a celebration of design. I could continue to heap praise on the beauty of the word, image, and assembly.
- BOOKS IN CANADA
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