You Can Take It With You
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You Can Take It With You
The same thing will now happen to cities. A lot of the old dimensions have become "good enough" — you can access a decent job, get Amazon deliveries, have your artisanal coffee, give your kids good education.... in so many different places, easily.
Dror Poleg • Dror’s Substack | Substack
In 1995, Alan Ehrenhalt wrote a book on three Chicago neighborhoods called The Lost City , observing:
In the 1950s they [residents] considered the streets to be their home, an extension of their property, whereas today [1995] the streets are, for many people, an alien place. A block is not really a community in this neighborhood anymore. Only a hou... See more
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