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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. It leads to attempts at warping city life into imitations of town or suburban life. Sentimentality plays with sweet intentions in place of good sense.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire.”
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“Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
Urbanism Book Club
— 8 members
— last activity Oct 13, 2011 06:45PM
A group for the exchange of books and ideas about cities.
Urban life / Life in the city
— 18 members
— last activity Mar 12, 2013 01:25PM
For readers of fictional books, narrating about city life world wide.
geography and planing
— 10 members
— last activity Jan 11, 2009 11:04PM
this group specified for all student in geograohy and rural or urban planning and the other related sciences, every body can being member in this grou ...more
Improvised Book Club
— 6 members
— last activity May 03, 2010 09:33PM
Read along with Phoenix's Improvised Book Club, and then visit The Torch Theatre on the last Sunday of each month to watch a discussion and improvised ...more
Leadership Thinking
— 55 members
— last activity Sep 16, 2017 04:46PM
Thinking about the hard stuff. Growing, developing, and becoming a 21st century leader.
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