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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.
• Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the…
• 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…
• There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that…
• Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet…
• 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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