The American City ed. by Graham Clarke, 3 volumes

3 volume box set of "literary sources and documents" on American cities. Hardcover, books in fine condition. Slipcase very good with some slight fraying to the edges. Broad selection of writing on American cities, featuring a near-comprehensive range of topics from architecture, city planning (about the only moment people seem to enjoy writing about Philadelphia) immigration, poverty, the black experience. Features well known selections (Horatio Alger, Joan Didion, Walt Whitman to Hunter S. Thompson among others) and lesser-known writings on urban experience. 1997