Volume 45, Number 14 · September 24, 1998
Fresh Air Blues
By Sue M. Halpern
Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral
by Charles. Siebert
Crown, 216 pp., $21.00
The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City
by Robert Sullivan
Scribner, 200 pp., $23.00
Red-Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park
by Marie Winn
Pantheon, 305 pp., $24.00
Of all the conventional wisdoms about the city, one is so widely shared it would appear to be irrefutable. It is that the city stands apart from nature. Indeed, if definitions were made from what things weren't, this absence could be one of its meanings. In The Culture of Cities, Lewis Mumford describes the movement to this condition in nearly tidal terms:
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