Although rarely read today, Fannie Hurst was one of America's most popular, prolific, and well-paid fiction writers of the 1920s and 1930s. The author of eighteen novels in addition to hundreds of short stories, Hurst wrote sentimental but vivid accounts...
BOOK Britain simply doesn't do much vertical gardening, Ruth Slavid discovers Vertical Gardens: Bringing the City to Life. By Anna Lambertini and Jacques Leenhardt. Thames & Hudson, 2007. 240pp. £39.95 The children's centre at Paradise Park in north London, designed by DSDHA with...
NEW YORK -- With its own police force, hospital and zip code, the World Trade Center is a vertical metropolis of 50,000. But for now, the towers that define New York's skyline sit sealed and shuttered like a soaring ghost town. The two...
