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The City Conference, ICA, London. 1/2 October 1988

1988; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 42; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1425003

1531-314X

Frances Anderton,

Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism

This was a conference of bizarre contrasts. In the cozy cinema of a refined arts club in a magnificent Nash building on The Mall (leading to Buckingham Palace, this is the mostwell-kept, pot-hole free road in London) Marshall Berman, via a video screen, warned against the hideous crimes of urbicide being wrought upon our cities in an age of technocratic modernism; and then at lunchtime we stepped out into St. James's Park, glistening in the autumn sunshine and full of people strolling about this one of London's greatest institutions, an urban park, dedicatedto the public and never to be built upon and where the only evidence of urbicide is the pigeon droppings, which threaten one day to obliterate the picturesque pathways and rolling lawns.