Cities
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The city, corrupted and disorganized on the one hand by the idleness of the privileged citizens, and undermined on the other by the imperceptible but relentless activity of the disinherited world of slaves who, despite their slavery, through common labor developed a sense of mutual aid and solidarity against oppression, collapsed under the blows of the barbarian peoples.


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When one considers that the architecture of the city influences the mood, the humor, even the character of its citizens; when one considers the civic pride, pleasure and sense of community that may be inspired by the architecture of a city, it is a strange reflection on our kind of civilization that we leave the initiative in designing our cities, piecemeal, largely to commercial interests, and their approval to penny-wise councilors, and we do so at a time when, more than ever before in history, pecuniary considerations are dominant.


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Intimate local architecture is everywhere being swamped by anonymous concrete egg-crates and the 'new ' slab architecture equally suitable and equally monotonous in London, Berlin, Buenos Aires and Singapore.


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...the crucifixion of the city by its traffic -- an epithet that just about describes what has happened in Los Angeles.


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In the mornings at daylight, mothers take their babies to the water fronts and nurse them on the dock string-pieces and on the rocks in the empty lots. Quiet is there, some space, a kinder air, and the sun coming up over Long Island through the haze cannot be more uncomfortable than the several times heated and used air back in the bricklined street and stuffy rooms.

They fondle the babies in the morning stillness, watching the quiet, changing life on the river. Schooners flap out with the tide, big Fall River boats thump around Hell Gate and shortly the sharp saucy bowed stem-yachts slip by on their way from the Sound to the anchorage off Twenty-second Street.


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     Cities -- Added : April 07, 2020

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