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There’s nothing like a balmy day in the city to make you appreciate green open spaces. The concrete, asphalt and brick radiate such concentrated heat that it sends me running for any kind of shade like a lizard in this urban desert. The monochromatic matrix of roads and large [...]
Continue Reading → In the literal, if not geographical, center of the city, Beaux Arts facades and dour gray buildings suggest an odd vanity in the otherwise homely Civic Center Plaza. I walked through the plaza back in February and was struck by the lifelessness in the landscape.
Pollarded trees, like tumorous [...]
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Like Mike Waters (River Phoenix) in My Own Private Idaho, I am a connoisseur of roads. Whether on foot, by bike or on transit, I love to wander through neighborhoods, observing how the character of a city changes from street to street.
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