Tamara’s Reviews > The Death and Life of Great American Cities > Status Update

... We Americans will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia : what is the purpose of life? For us the answer will be clear, established, and for all purposes indisputable : the purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.

"A city of almost eight million can support two aquariums, and it can afford to show off its fish free. " I'm a tiny bit tipsy and therefore find this both profound and hilarious. At least I hope that's why.

Real people are unique, they invest years of their lives in significant relationships with other unique people, and are not interchangeable in the least. Severed from their relationships, they are destroyed as effective social beings - sometimes for a little while, sometimes forever.

Real people are unique, they invest years of their lives into

Real people are unique, they invest years of their lives into