“The way to get at what goes on in the seemingly mysterious and perverse behavior of cities is, I think, to look closely, and with little previous expectation as is possible, at the most ordinary scenes and events, and attempt to see what they mean and whether any threads of principle emerge among them.”
– Jane Jacobs, The Death And Life of Great American Cities
“Nothing, you see, holds static in a restless city.”
– Meyer Berger
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