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If They Build It, They Will Come [The Mayor's Institute on City Design]

Susan S Weiner

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I have always wanted to live in the city, to be an urban dweller. But for most of my life I couldn't explain why, I didn't have the language. I couldn't tell you that I wanted to live amid activity; the comings and goings of commerce and entertainment offer excitement and a variety and multiplicity of choices. I wanted the convenience a city offers: driving to its major shopping district, or using public transit to visit a neighborhood shopping area,

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Key concepts: Entertainment, Variety (cybernetics), Advertising, Internet privacy, Sociology, Media studies, Business, Visual arts