
The great cities of the turn of the 20th century were built stone by stone, but were experienced story by story. The built city was mediated by words - newspapers, advertisements, signs, and schedules - by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, imagined their surroundings. In...

The great cities at the turn of the century were mediated by words--newspapers, advertisements, signs, and schedules--by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, and imagined their surroundings. In this original study of the classic text of urban modernism--the newspaper page--Peter...