This Must be the Place: Writing the City

What interesting forms can writings on cities and urbanism take and how would they seek to draw the audience?

This is the context for the evening’s literary event where Urban Extraordinaires from around the Bay divulge about cities past, present, and future—cities that were, cities that are and cities that might be, amidst all their truths and deceptions, glories and catastrophes. From a once-gritty New York’s etchings of financial woes and cultural renaissance; to a fictional Eden Valley’s mysterious saga of sprawl and money; from memoirist brushstrokes of othering, agency, and empathy in present day Seattle; to the Bay Area’s blundering path to resegregation; and from a speculative weaving of San Francisco’s full commons alternatives and fascist futures; to other visceral imaginations of place and time; all these and more. Come hear stories of urban struggles and potential and speculate on the limitless promise of cities’ futures still to be…