American cities are so bad that people who deal with them can't imagine that a city can ever be nice https://twitter.com/Chr_Cru/status/879765693859758080 …
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Replying to @Chr_Cru
American ideas abt cities are derived from English ones, we just had the terrible misfortune of being able to act on those ideas more fully
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Replying to @380kmh
I agree that cities can be lovely, I do love many parts of London. The problem is that the crap starts seeping into the nice parts.
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Replying to @Chr_Cru
I don't have as much familiarity with London--I loved Norwich tho. Good urban character can apply even in tiny towns, like Bridport.
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Nowadays it's easy to see that urban failure is mostly connected to the residents, not the form--but this overlooks how that came about...
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...in English and later American urban structural patterns, which both involved spatial sorting by class, which in turn meant...
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...that social deterioration among poor could go unheeded. Well, until a tipping point. Now there are fewer & fewer places to avoid them.
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Replying to @380kmh
Modernism and deindustrialisation has torn this country a new onepic.twitter.com/ALcYVfPzQ4
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Replying to @380kmh
It hurts a little walking these streets, seeing beautiful buildings overshadowed by monolithic concrete blocks.
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