Bl-urbs: For a text by the same name soon to be available (in print) at fine bookstores everywhere. Joe Amato The titular Latin has no known origin . . . For millions in this country the paradigm has been Manhattan; alternately, the urban is primary subtext for most of what many of us now refer to as housing projects; a pretext, otherwise, for cosmopolitan fashio ns since at least the fourteenth century . . . Read it. J. D. Wittenhouser, Jr. city become body architecture made flesh rapid transit to and fro made of motion a thin of marketplace exchange hence forth the body the marketplace the word embodied all electronic billboards signs not of but for the times: Whitman was wrong after all and so was I: things just can't be this way. W. C. Williams, sance de spiritisme Fascinating! . . . probes into the most profound of our animal fears . . . An accomplishment! Kirkus Reviews Our urban lives as Disney amd McDonald's and I would have them: Makes a LOT of sense, folks. Donald Trump This is a goofy, brillant book. Buy two copies, give one to a friend. Norman Mailer Lines of transgression are not necessarily a prerequisite to positive social reform. I live in a stone house. H. Ross Perot This is an erogenous, bluesy excursion, transporting the fragmented urban psyche from a moment of spatial plenitude to the limits of neural contingency. Electronic form is voided of all prior typographic content, and we can begin to sense in the emerging inkless shadows a new consciousness recombining out of the cybernetic soup, rollerblading away from older Edenic contours toward the tangential incertainties of ever-evolving siliconcrete culture. What we are left with, well who can say? Jean Baudrillard [B]rings to mind two questions Alvin Toffler posed two decades ago in Future Shock: What kind of cultural life should a great city of the future enjoy? What resources would be needed to realize a given set of goals? Toffler reasoned that the development of social assemblies would aid in providing answers to these questions, that in fact we were fast developing games and simulation exercises whose chief beauty was that they helped players clarify their own values, such as Project Plato at the Univers ity of Illinois. Unfortunately, the situation, as Bl-urbs details it, has been rendered even more complex by the advent of sociopolotical agenda that draw their strength from the very dislocations wroght of accelerating change that Toffler lamented noma dic, throw-away, ad hoc, image-laden, fragmented, modular. Bl-urbs proposed solutions to this predicament are, in a word, breathtaking. Wall Street Journal ' Some people are just plain hungry, that's all'. From an interview conducted at a at a large urban housing project with a resident who refused to give her name syntax precludes whether commentary withering tomatoes nonetheless vine-ripening transportation migrates to living rooms i need out Anonymous graffiti found in authorØs bathroom Both sprawling metropolis and modest urban center are quick becoming at once iinvestment havens for wealthy suburbanites (drawing their financially less fortunate brethren into these environs) as well as traps for the poor. . . . This text provides ample corroboration of the age-old dictum that 'truth will'. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Cyberspace looms large here . . . I just can't quite figure out where. . . . Timothy Leary This is bullshit. Hakim Bey Our cities are in trouble, and this book will only exacerbate the problem Mario Cuomo What gets me is not that something like this is published, but that the public would seem to have acquired a taste for such irreverent nonsense. Marcel Duchamp III Joe, who the fuck are you kidding? You've never even lived in a big city. The author's brother, Mike, prior to the author having moved to Chicago a few months back