Yes, the city must be redeemed--but not by turning it into the country!
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It is extremely common for urban planners, then and now, to try to make cities "better" by making them less city-like.
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"More green space" is the perpetual mantra, with a million variations. Unsurprisingly, urban planners = overwhelmingly de facto communists
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This is tweet is where you stopped making good observations.
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correction: this is where my observations stopped affirming what you already believed
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Damn I got owned. But I honestly don't see how the countryside could in any way be legitimately called communist.
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I was deliberately using troll-y language, but my point was that cities = economy of trade, country = economy of subsistence
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Henri Pirenne, in his economic histories of the Middle Ages, accurately described the feudal economy as "the economy of no markets"
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the return of trade and commerce to Europe, beginning with Venice, gradually replaced feudalism with capitalism
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Fair enough, I was just put off by your word choice.
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Mea culpa. I was trying to shock people into reconsidering their assumptions.
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