The Sociable City Post-Communism & Socialism battered by waves on all

battered by waves on all sides

ʿAbd al-Laṭīf was a keen observer of humanity

and affection

complicating partnership efforts

and Germanic traditions of the Continent

The Sociable City Post-Communism & Socialism battered by waves on allWhen celebrated landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted despaired in 1870 that the "restraining and confining conditions" of the city compelled its inhabitants to "look closely upon others without sympathy," he was expressing what many in the United States had already been saying about the nascent urbanization that would continue to transform the nation's landscape: that the modern city dramatically changes the way individuals interact with and feel