Historical information

Boyd reviews Mitchell Gordon's Sick Cities. He opens with a scathing description of American urbanism: the skyscraper and the automobile in a fight to the death, and a culture unwilling to engage with a discussion of urbanism. Boyd presents Gordon's book as a non-technical and non-partisan contribution to the new field of American urbanism, focussed on the functional problems (sprawl, traffic, squatting, air pollution) rather than visual ugliness. He commends Gordon's book as 'good, meaty [and] helpful' to city administrators and city lovers everywhere.

Significance

Book Review (Mitchell Gordon)

Physical description

Typewritten, quarto, 3 pages

Inscriptions & markings

Scribbled out sections on pages 1, 2 and 3; addition of notes in pages 2 and 3.