Contents

Introduction by David Marcus

I. Origin Stories

1.Caught Up in the Mix

II. Radical Times

2.The Politics of Authenticity

3.Alienation, Community, Freedom

4.Notes Toward a New Society

5.Unchained Melody

III. Living for the City

6.Take It to the Streets

7.Buildings Are Judgment, or “What Man Can Build”

8.Views from the Burning Bridge

9.New York Calling

IV. Jay Talking

10.The Dancer and the Dance (Karl Marx)

11.Still Waiting at the Station (Edmund Wilson)

12.Angel in the City (Walter Benjamin)

13.Cosmic Chutzpah (Georg Lukács)

V. The Bright Book of Life

14.The Jewish Patient (Franz Kafka)

15.Waiting for the Barbarians (Isaac Babel)

16.In the Night Kitchen (Alfred Kazin)

17.The Bright Book of Life (Orhan Pamuk)

VI. Signs in the Street

18.Signs in the Street

19.Underground Man

20.Broadway, Love, and Theft

21.“Justice / Just Us”

VII. The Romance of Public Space

Introduction by Shellie Sclan

22.The Romance of Public Space

23.The Bible and Public Space

VIII. From the Ruins

24.Emerging from the Ruins

Notes

Index