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An Urban Odyssey : A Critic’s Search for the Soul of Cities and Self / Sam Hall Kaplan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9798887195490
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.92 B 23/eng/20240604
LOC classification:
  • PN4874.K3425 A3 2024
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- ABOUT THE COVER -- 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 URBANISM -- 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
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- ABOUT THE COVER -- 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 URBANISM -- 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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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