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Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities…
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People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.
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The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big…
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Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the…
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Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning.…
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...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a…
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The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no…
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of…
— William S. Burroughs
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Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
— Nikki Giovanni
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The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable…
— William Henry Chamberlin
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A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to…
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Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It…
— Raymond Loewy
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The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its…
— Yiyun Li
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Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?
— Faraaz Kazi
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We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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