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Cities, Culture & Granite (Paperback)
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In North America, we are generally desensitised to our
surroundings, whether they are buildings or forests. This lack of
awareness makes it easier to accept the fact that cities, towns,
and suburbs are all built for us, not by us. It also makes sensible
urban planning or policy difficult. The results have not been
pretty. Cities are dysfunctional in part because we have built them
in ways that pollute our ecosphere, something that harms our health
in a direct way. Ecological stupidity is also economic stupidity,
and North American urban development is incomprehensibly expensive.
But cities also don't work socially: their design discourages
casual public contact, which is the source of strong local
communities and of self-confident collective action. Fowler points
to numerous examples of humans who have transcended this culture of
separation.
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