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'The Architecture of Community' Advocates a Return to More Conscientious Urban Developmentnew

Leon Krier contends that modernism, whatever its virtues in small scale, has been nothing but a disaster in larger scales -- a force that has managed to sterilize cities aesthetically, ruin years of expertise in building trades, and lead planners and developers to compose cities in unsustainable ways.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Scott Carlson  |  10-06-2009  |  Nonfiction

Apocalypse Soonnew

New books by Jared Diamond and Christopher D. Cook parse out details of the end of the world as we know it.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Scott Carlson  |  01-26-2005  |  Nonfiction

Story of the First Death Row Inmate Cleared by DNAnew

This story has all the elements of a classic American tale: a gruesome murder and a simple man, falsely accused, who fights the system and wins. The controversial issues of the death penalty and the abuses of the criminal-justice system form its core.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Scott Carlson  |  09-08-2004  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

Village Voice Writer Chronicles Woman's Life after Prisonnew

Released after 16 years in prison, Elaine Bartlett finds that the family she longed to rejoin has many troubles. Gonnerman describes the ex-convict's plight in writing that is plain and sometimes a bit dull, but this book has some remarkable sections and memorable moments.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Scott Carlson  |  08-07-2004  |  Nonfiction

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