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In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one ...more

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No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can fl...more

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To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable:1. The district, and indeed as many of its interna...more

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[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East Harlem] says. 'They contain people with real abil...more

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I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, a...more

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Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to a...more

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What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to the clouds like a magic castle girdled by water? ...more

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As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--becomes less bumptious, physically and entails more l...more

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Play on lively, diversified sidewalks differs from virtually all other daily incidental play offered American children today: It is play not conducted...more

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To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a di...more