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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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There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that…
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Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet…
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Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning.…
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Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
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I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary…
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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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Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core…
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In our American cities, we need all kinds of diversity.
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As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora…
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Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly…
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When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It…
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Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.
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Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God…
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Usually, old ladies tell me to find Jesus. Look, I'm just trying to find some chai and a good vegan muffin.
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The last major breakthrough for the theatre was electricity, and we have to push beyond that if we want to move beyond…
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Shabazz led chants of ‘death to Israel,’ ‘the white man is the devil,’ and ‘Jihad.’ He also said, ‘Kill every goddamn Zionist…
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I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am…
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Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an…
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I like people-watching and getting inspiration from the unique people who dont follow any fashion tides. From 12-year-olds who have full freedom,…
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The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies
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