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To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.


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Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.



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There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.



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While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.



The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.



This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.



People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.



This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.

This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.





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