Kaitlin’s Reviews > Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It > Status Update

"The great gift of the city is that of propinquity: anybody can meet anybody on the streets of a great city. Once the streets collapse, or the market is bulldozed, or the parks are fenced, or the beach erodes, people lose the ways and means of public intercourse. The ensuing separations follow social fault lines that divide populations by class, race, religion, age, culture..."