Packing for Mexico City, I briefly considered taking the perverse (as usual) reading route and packing no books about Mexico City at all. Maybe I’d just take the first few on the couch pile: Lonely Planet Japan, In the Dutch Mountains, Maximum City. In the event, I chickened out and stuffed at least five D.F.-centric […]
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Notebook on Cities and Culture podcast
Books
Videos
Selected essays
- Chris Marker, Sans Soleil, and Japan
- Christopher Rand in Los Angeles, Asia, and Beyond
- Cities, architecture, and urbanism Open Culture posts
- Donald Richie's "The Inland Sea"
- Favorite Open Culture posts
- How Japan Invented Los Angeles — and Reinvented American Style
- Living the Vertical Life in Seoul
- On men's style books
- Our Car Culture Is Not a Problem; Our House Culture Is
- Reading Calvin and Hobbes in Korea
- Reyner Banham's "Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies" at 45
- Subway station toilets
- The films of Hong Sangsoo
- The Korea in California and the California in Korea
- Three novels by Kim Young-ha
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Recent Posts
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- This week’s city reading: how Angelenos evolve, what “ghost signs” reveal, and the weakness of “best cities” lists
- Guardian Cities: How to Make a High Line
- Korea Blog: “Detroit”‘s American Riot and “A Taxi Driver”‘s Korean Massacre
- This week’s city reading: This Year’s Best Design Cities, When Airbnb Overtakes Your Building, the Lonely Los Angeles of “Heat”
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