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City of Glass
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24 City
Carries a strong pull into music through urban isolation and after-hours.
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High Maintenance
Carries a strong pull into music through power and urban isolation.
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Los Angeles
Carries a strong pull into film through power and urban isolation.
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Sound of the City (Nature 2.4)
Carries a strong pull into television through urban isolation and after-hours.
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The Practice of Everyday Life
Carries a strong pull into books through urban isolation and South Asia.
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Television · Strong bridge
At the Threshold of an Era
1990s
TVB's millennium-threshold corporate saga — Hong Kong television holding the city through institution, ambition, and generational weight.
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Music · Strong bridge
Los Angeles
2000s
Instrumental hip-hop from the city of angels. Glitch, jazz, and Coltrane's great-nephew.
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City of God
2000s
Two decades in a Rio de Janeiro favela. Violence, ambition, and survival as visual spectacle.
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The Practice of Everyday Life
1980s
The Practice of Everyday Life is a book by Michel de Certeau that examines the ways in which people individualise mass culture, altering things, from utilitarian objects to street plans to rituals, laws and language, in order to make them their own. It was originally published in French as L'invention du quotidien....
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Television 2010s
High Maintenance
High Maintenance is an American anthology comedy-drama television and web series created by ex-husband and wife team Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfeld. The show follows The Guy, a cannabis courier, as he delivers his product to clients in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Each episode focuses on different charac...
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Books 1990s
The Rings of Saturn
A walking tour of coastal Suffolk becomes a meditation on decay, colonial violence, memory, and the entropy of civilization.
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Music 2000s
Sound of the City (Nature 2.4)
Film 1990s
The City of Lost Children
The City of Lost Children is a 1995 fantasy film directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet, written by Jeunet and Gilles Adrien, and starring Ron Perlman. An international co-production of companies from France, Germany, and Spain, the film is stylistically related to the previous and subsequent Jeunet films, Del...
Television 2020s
We Own This City
We Own This City is an American crime drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. The miniseries was developed by George Pelecanos and David Simon and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. The six-episode series premiered on HBO on April 25, 2022.
Books 1980s
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, and greed in 1980s New York City, and centers on three main characters: WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish assistant district attorney Larry Kramer, and British expatriate jour...