Where is our urban mythology of risk?

For a long time, this city has needed architects to refresh its urban mythology.

The killing of Kitty Genovese was first a tragedy, then a symbol, then a bit of durable urban mythology.

The links between the pitching resurgence, Williams's hiring and the Johnson-Lofton wrestling match are now the stuff of urban mythology.

It plunders history while celebrating it, creating a sleazy urban mythology along the way.

It is not quite as popular in regard to urban mythology as Chad Kroski, but there are also in character websites about the band.

One freak outbreak of urban mythology and entire populations would become paralysed, either that or regress straight into survivalist siege mode.

For Mr. Koolhaas, these projects represent the ideal of an architecture at once modern and romantic; they defined an urban mythology for changing times.

The hard-boiled detective is an American archetype, to urban mythology what the cowboy is to the Wild West.

At few other restaurants can you feel that you've stepped this surely into a living museum, a patch of urban mythology.