Bryan’s Reviews > The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition > Status Update

James loves the word tragic in the preface. Interesting ideas on 'unity' making Paris great, and on the misery caused by progress. Disdainful of America, and of modernism. Classicist, somewhat socialist leanings. James has wide, arcane understanding of what makes a city. So far, history of Louis-Napoleon's entry into French politics, and reputation as a social reformer. Election, frustration at lazy assembly, coup.