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11/5/14

Introduction

INTRODUCTION The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, 1961

I've just started to read this book.

Excerpt: "Handsome is as handsome does. All that glitters is not gold... 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."

Plus, Cedric Price's, City As An Egg:

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