Jane Jacobs quote: What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to the clouds like a ...

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? Its very touch of jumbled jaggedness, its towering-sided canyons, are its magnificence.

~ Jane Jacobs ~

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