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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…
• People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.
• The second mode to deal with unsafe cities is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big…
• Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the…
• Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning.…
• ...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a…
• The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so.
• 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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