The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago : a History of Our Future
Author: Marco D’Eramo Publication date: 1999 Arrival in Chicagoland You expect the city of Al Capone- but what you find are pleasant boulevards coursing up and down between …
Author: Marco D’Eramo Publication date: 1999 Arrival in Chicagoland You expect the city of Al Capone- but what you find are pleasant boulevards coursing up and down between …
Author: Rem Koolhaas Publication date: 1978 Coney Island: The Technology of the Fantastic The glare is everywhere, and nowhere a shadow. – Maxim Gorky, “Boredom” MODEL “Now, where the waste was … …
Author: Italo Calvino Original title: Le città invisibili Publication date: 1972 THIN CITIES 3 Whether Armilla is like this because it is unfinished or because it has been demolished, …
Author: James Joyce Publication date: 1922 William Humble, earl of Dudley, and lady Dudley, accompanied by lieutenantcolonel Heseltine, drove out after luncheon from the viceregal lodge. In …
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Publication date: 1903 Rome October 29, 1903 Dear Sir, I received your letter of August 29 in Florence, and it has taken me this long two …
By Mark Twain From Following the Equator (1897). http://www.marktwainhannibal.com/twain/works/following_the_equator_1897/chapter44.shtml January 30. What a spectacle the railway station was, at train-time! It was a very large station, yet when …
Author: Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland Translated: Thomasina Ross Written: 1799-1804 The small extent of the valley, and the proximity of the high mountains of Avila and the …
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Translated: W.H.Auden, Elizabeth Mayer Written: 1786 – 1788 ROME November 22 On the Feast of St. Cecilia I must write a few lines to keep alive …
Author: Francesco Petrarca Translated: James Harvey Robinson Written: 1359 An Excursion to Paris, the Netherlands, and the Rhine To Cardinal Giovanni Colonna I have lately been travelling through France, …
Author: Herodotus Translated: George Rawlinson Written: 440 B.C.E Book II Euterpe CHAPTER 5 For any one who sees Egypt, without having heard a word about it before, must perceive, if …
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