Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives Fantagraphics @SierraLouieArt

@SierraLouieArt

and the beauty in the darkness

Caden's next-door neighbor

Presented in this volume alongside the rest of the body of fiction produced by the Welsh poet in his short and turbulent life

Allen Ginsberg

Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives Fantagraphics @SierraLouieArtIn cities around the world a new urban condition is spreading rapidly, characterized by ever increasing levels of perfection, efficiency, control, and the active eradication of any aberration or alternative. In the smooth city, urban space is sanitized and urban life is compressed into a seamless experience. While the need for safe, clean, and well functioning urban environments is clear, the rise of the smooth city undermines the democratic nature