Jack Iwashyna · @iwashyna
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: “Jane Jacobs says great cities help strangers to feel like neighbors and fellow-citizens”

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Jack Iwashyna · @iwashyna
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: “Cities are a technology for bringing large numbers of people together”

#CharlieDuff

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Jack Iwashyna · @iwashyna
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Finishing up

“The freedom to move around - on foot, or on a bike, without the protective armor of a car - is the essence of a great . It is why a great city is as potent an image of freedom as a redwood forest or a sailboat.”

#CharlieDuff #TheNorthAtlanticCities #city

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Jack Iwashyna · @iwashyna
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“There should be a monument to the first person who ever came home from a full day's work and cooked dinner. “

on the rise of

#CharlieDuff #apartments

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Jack Iwashyna · @iwashyna
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“If you think of cities as world of art — and this book has probably mystified you if you do not…”

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Jack Iwashyna · @iwashyna
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as the institutionalization of

: “new scientific institutes and universities… created in every city a culture that encourage scientists to look for new problems, to solve them through experiment and teamwork, and to train the next generation of discontented experts”

I love the phrase

#Science #discontent #CharlieDuff #DiscontentedExperts

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Jack Iwashyna · @iwashyna
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“The was the sign that a place was a , or aspired to become one, in the long 18th century. It was what the skyscraper became in the 20th century.”

#rowhouse #city #CharlieDuff #TheNorthAtlanticCities

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Jack Iwashyna · @iwashyna
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“Pre-conditions, however, are not actions”

@sociology

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Jack Iwashyna · @iwashyna
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I'm quite enjoying 's book and suddenly realizing he is a neighbor in

He also helps run jubileebaltimore.org

makes a compelling case that the aesthetic I love was perfected in the Netherlands in the 1600s--noting how contemporary these two paintings look

#CharlieDuff #TheNorthAtlanticCities #Baltimore #JubileeBaltimore #Duff #rowhome

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