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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
“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
“Los datos pueden explicarse de muchas maneras, pero se elige seguir reforzando los prejuicios y los estereotipos.”
― Jodidos turistas
― Jodidos turistas
“The trust of a city street is formed over time from many, many little public sidewalk contacts... Most of it is ostensibly trivial but the sum is not trivial at all.”
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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 contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Adrià’s 2025 Year in Books
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148 books
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59 books
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118 books
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163 books
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215 books
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113 books
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167 books
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