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I Think That Part Of The Growing Popularity Of The New Urbanism Is Not Simply Because It Is So Rational, And Not Simply Because People Care So Much About Community Or Even Understand It, Or The Relation Of Sprawl To The Ruination Of The Natural World. But They Just Don't Like What Is Around. And They Will Be Ruthless With It.

Americans Don't Really Think That Other Places Are As Real As America.

Nations Are Political And Military Entities, And So Are Blocs Of Nations. But It Doesn't Necessarily Follow From This That They Are Also The Basic, Salient Entities Of Economic Life Or That They Are Particularly Useful For Probing The Mysteries Of Economic Structure, The Reasons For Rise And Decline Of Wealth. Indeed, The Failure Of National Governments And Blocs Of Nations To Force Economic Life To Do Their Bidding Suggests Some Sort Of Essential Irrelevance.

Cities Never Flourish Alone. They Have To Be Trading With Other Cities.

My Husband Was A Hospital Architect And He Was Working On Some Hospitals In Alberta, And I Told Him To Try To Find Out What They Thought About Separatism. He Would Come Back On Weekends. He Said "well, I Think I Found Out How They Feel About Separatism. I Brought It Up At Lunch In The Cafeteria, And Everybody At The Table Was Silent And Then Somebody Said 'let's Change The Subject'."