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A Border--the Perimeter Of A Single Massive Or Stretched-out Use Of Territory--forms The Edge Of An Area Of 'ordinary' City. Often Borders Are Thought Of As Passive Objects, Or Matter-of-factly Just As Edges. However, A Border Exerts An Active Influence.

There Are Dangers In Sentimentalizing Nature. Most Sentimental Ideas Imply, At Bottom, A Deep If Unacknowledged Disrespect. It Is No Accident That We Americans, Probably The World's Champion Sentimentalizers About Nature, Are At One And The Same Time Probably The World's Most Voracious And Disrespectful Destroyers Of Wild And Rural Countryside.

The Notion That You Could Discard The Old World And Now Make A New One. This Is What Was So Bad About Modernism.

In Wretched Outcomes, The Devil Is In The Details.

Intricate Minglings Of Different Uses In Cities Are Not A Form Of Chaos. On The Contrary, They Represent A Complex And Highly Developed Form Of Order.