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Title
Author
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Marc Levinson
The New Geography of Jobs
Enrico Moretti
The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
Ruchir Sharma
Evicted: Povery and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
The Pale King
David Foster Wallace
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Highlights
We don’t have a place around here to get a cup of coffee or a newspaper even, or borrow fifty cents. Nobody cared what we need. But the big men come and look at that grass and say, ‘Isn’t it wonderful! Now the poor have everything!’ ” This tenant was saying what moralists have said for thousands of years: Handsome is as handsome does. All that glitters is not gold.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Howard set spinning powerful and city-destroying ideas: He conceived that the way to deal with the city’s functions was to sort and sift out of the whole certain simple uses, and to arrange each of these in relative self-containment.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
However they were arranged, the important point was that the monuments had been sorted out from the rest of the city, and assembled into the grandest effect thought possible, the whole being treated as a complete unit, in a separate and well-defined way.
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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