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What Kind Of Urbanist Is Bob Dylan?

A CityLab guide to the Dylan canon and the allure of the city.
Dylan's alleyway cue cards for "Subterranean Homesick Blues."

Never mind whether Bob Dylan’s lyrics qualify as Nobel-worthy literature. Here’s the real question: Is he an urbanist?

A lot of the urbanist internet sure thinks so. In its subterranean realms you’ll find maps of Bob Dylan’s New York, a list by CityLab alum Eric Jaffe on Dylan’s best songs about infrastructure, and an English paper about his quality as an urban poet.