Alex Marshall, inMetropolis (Jan.-Feb. 1995), 177 E. 87th St.,New York, N.Y. 10128.
To Americans who loathe suburban sprawl and shopping malls, Europe has always seemed the promised urban land. Writing about the woes of U.S. cities, architects and city planners frequently dot their texts with cosmopolitan asides about how much more Europeans still care about community, about public spaces, about cities. "Well, they don't. At least not as much as we think,"writes Marshall, a reporter for...