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"The City"
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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Public transit is an integral and multifarious part of any urban landscape. It moves great masses of people; it weaves stratified areas of the city together and links to areas beyond; it pushes us together in ephemeral communities that connect us in exactly the opposite way the automobile isolates us.
