Parabola's Winter 1993 issue: The City Cities, like people, have personalities. Every city, even the toughest and most commercial minded, has a conscience and a heart. Just as in the construction of the human body and psyche, there are great numbers of systems in operation at once, often competing against each other, but always animated by that life-giving center.... Whether as citizens of today's metropolis or as aspiring citizens of the household of God, we need to find ourway from the city's outer walls to its center, to its heart, where the treasure we seek lies hidden. --from the editorial Focus Cover: "View of New Novgorod" by Alekseij Bogoljubov St. Petersburg, Russian State Museum Art Resource, New York In this issue:

• "Living Next to One Another" by Daniel Kemmis
  - The role of the citizen
• "An Image of the Soul" by HRH The Prince of Wales
  - How to rebuild with conscience
• "Reinterpreting the City" by Eduardo Rauch
  - The metropolis and artistic imagination
• "Kashi, the Luminous" by Diana L. Eck
  - Banares, city of Shiva
• "The Families Gathered Together" by Joseph Bruchac
  - Traditional Native American village life
• "The Hieratic City State" by Joseph Campbell
  - Ancient models of Paradise
• "The Emperor's Palace" by Jonathan Swift
  - Gulliver visits Mildendo
• ARCS: "The Heart Within the City"
• "Light From the Center" by Gai Eaton
  - The holy city in Islam
• "A Livable City" by Christine Whittemore
  - A portrait of L'Aquila, Italy
• "Delicious Taste Permanent Memory" by Kathleen Lee
  - A Western woman's travels in China
• "The Spirit of Place" by Renv© Dubos
  - Distinctive traits of certain cities
• "The City Coat of Arms" by Franz Kafka
  - From common aim to general strife
• "Blind Architects" by Maurice Maeterlinck
  - The cities of the termite
• "Ghadamis, Kabao, Naloot" drawings by Ann Leggett
  - Ancient cities of the Sahara

Interviews

• Where Trade Began" / Jane Jacobs with Hope Cullum - The renewal and morality of cities
• "City of Many Villages" / Sulak Sivaraksa - Bangkok, city built by a god
• "A Cornucopia of Interest" / Hope Cooke - New York, the richest city in the world

Tangents - Reviews

• "Teotihuacan: City of the Gods" by Bob Scher
  - Exhibit of art at M. H. de Young Museum

Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world

• "Many-Columned Iram" / Arabian - from The Arabian Nights
• "The Kingdom of Automata" / Hindu - retold by Paul Jordan-Smith
• "Asgard" / Norse - retold by Tom White
• "Rhythm" / Sufi - from Tales by Hazrat Inayat Khan