Posted on 12/04/08
On the smart side of the street
CONCRETE REVERIESConsciousness and the CityBy Mark KingwellViking Canada, 276 pages, $34The title of Mark Kingwell's latest book, Concrete Reveries, is at once an elegant encapsulation of this remarkable essay and a neatly tailored metaphor for the defining paradox of the city: a complex (and man-made) invention capable of rendering durable the inevitably fleeting nature of human consciousness.
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