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“Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Big cities have difficulties in abundance, because they have people in abundance.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.”
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“There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“[Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jeremy’s 2024 Year in Books
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Biography, Business, Chick-lit, Christian, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Sports, Travel, and Young-adult
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