streetsnsquares: Monuments just around the corner

CityQuotes

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default - J.K. Rowling

Each time a language or culture is lost, we lose an irreplaceable and exquisite way of being. Each time a well-loved building is torn down without a trace, or a gathering place paved over, a strand of culture is frayed - unknown

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins - Italo Calvino

What's bad about sprawl is not its uniformity, but that it is so uniformly bad - Jim Kunstler

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city - unknown

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Friday, August 12, 2011

Monuments just around the corner

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