Contributors

Letters to the Editor

From the Editor:
The Vital City
DAVID HASKELL

Home is Where the Heart Was
A young novelist searches for the city she's left behind
CHIMANANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

Notes from Underground
A life story in subway graffiti
BRIAN GALLAGHER

Fast Cars & First Loves
Australia's rebel architect on a lifetime
of thresholds & their crossings
LEON VAN SCHAIK

What Cyberspace Does to Real Space
Where will we live when we can live anywhere?
WILLIAM J. MITCHELL

Stories of Ruin & Hope
A family bears witness to Warsaw's history
ZUZANNA OLSZEWSKA

What's in a Name?
Do street signs matter when nobody uses them?
ROBERT B. GILPIN

A New Cry of Freedom
A Kenyan writer sketches Nairobi's art scene
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA

Mr. Livingstone, I Presume
Success & failure in today's London
DENNIS HARDY

Why Garbage Matters
Tracing the city's dirty legacy
JOHN SCANLAN

Hurray for Hollywood!
Making a living in the City of Angels
BENJAMIN HURWITZ

The Second Coming of Moses
New York's master planner tells us what to
remember – and forget – about the infamous power broker
ALEXANDER GARVIN

Rendezvous in Old Nauvoo
The ghost of Mormon country
STEPHANIE FRANK

Creative Destruction
Havana & New York in the eyes of artists
JOSÉ PICAYO & TOM SLAUGHTER

More Than CitiBank
Who belongs in the global city?
SASKIA SASSEN

Fighting for Housing
Will urban security be lost in the terror wars?
NANCY MILIO

The Way of Life
Capturing the Paris of today's Parisians
JOE FORD

Life in a Ghost Town
A Nobel Pease Prize winner on his return to Dili
JOSÉ RAMOS-HORTA

From Bankruptcy to Barricades
A report from Buenos Aires – and globalization at its worst
DANIEL KURTZ-PHELAN

Wilderness on 68th Street
Why we need owls in Central Park
E.J. McADAMS


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Topic Magazine
Issue 3 | Winter 2003

Editor in Chief
David Haskell
Executive Editor
Robert B. Gilpin
Managing Editor
Maggie Evans
Senior Editors
Peter Abbott, Tom Hill, Nicholas Macgregor, Alan Schoenfeld & Eliza Young
Solicitation Director
Nicholas Macgregor
Contributing Editors
Saeeda Ahmed, Salome Antolin, Sara Crangle, Christopher Douglas, Maggie Evans, Mike Farquhar, Ann Fielding, Nilima Gulrajani, Jo Hartley, Sonja Hatz, K. Brooks Hickman, Kate Hodgson, Carmen Tomas, Kristin Veel & Marissa Wagner
Art Director
Daniel B. Visel
Publisher
Jeremy Marchant
Deputy Publishers
Finance: Muriel Rietbergen
Circulation: Jonathan Sanders
Assistant Publishers
Robert Colvile, Mike Farquhar, Nilima Gulrajani, Sonja Hatz & Richard Roberts
Business Advisor
Mohit Bhende
Web Designer
Shawn Cheng
Web Content Editor
Robert Colvile
Staff Photographers
Melanie J. Ross, Kelly Conaty
Director, California Office
Joanna Guldi


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