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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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