But the author is a journalist, and it is no sin to labor in one’s vocation. The reaction seems unusual: Most people, according to their means, might erect a monument, endow a charity, or leave flowers. Early on, readers learn that the book was written in refuge from-perhaps expiation for-the suicide of the writer’s estranged father. Much attention focuses laudably on retrieving residents’ lives from middens, graffiti, and the layout of sewers, or ruts in the roads elsewhere, the author concentrates on the misdeeds of elites that make those lives intolerable. Sometimes more reasons appear for choosing city life in the first place, or for why people put so much work into doomed structures.
The book wavers between rival explanations for writing about why people “lose” cities. Science journalist and fiction writer Annalee Newitz, who is reluctant to let capital determine fate, wants people to choose where to live and how to work in the land of the free.
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