“I’ve been rereading Giandomenico Amendola’s Post-Modern City (La città postmoderna. Magie e paure della metropoli contemporanea, 2000). Ten years after, the metaphoric Titanic is sunk: first 2008 and its mortgage crisis, then the EU’s trembling Euro.
That’s the reason, maybe, why I do not find the book really entertaining no more. Sure, there are interesting ideas - the car as an on the road reproduction of a grand hotel, to feel at home everywhere in town, or the distinction about the bateaux-mouche experience in Paris, compared to the much more rewarding walk along the river in Lyon, “City of Lights”, and many other points.
But as a whole, it is no longer the time for a Prozac-years city experience: hedonism and primadonna architects seem to sing out of tune, nowadays… Time - perhaps - to go back to the classics. Lewis Mumford’s The City in History, maybe?”
By mistake, I posted to last Friday’s issue of “The Museum Studies Weekly” only the title of my Editor’s note, but not the text… I’ve corrected this, in the meantime, but here’s a version of it, fopr those who looked for it in the Weekly, not finding it.
My apologies for this!
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