 In the third section French poetry (especially Baudelaire) is used as model of modernist writing, followed by a selection of Russian literature (Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Bely, Gogol and Mandelstam) in the fourth section.The book concludes with some notes on modernism in New York City during the 1960s and 1970s.New York City's subway map is said to have been designed in accordance with Berman's vision of modernity, presented in the book.