#CharlieDuff: “Jane Jacobs says great cities help strangers to feel like neighbors and fellow-citizens”
#CharlieDuff: “Cities are a technology for bringing large numbers of people together”
Finishing up #CharlieDuff #TheNorthAtlanticCities
“The freedom to move around - on foot, or on a bike, without the protective armor of a car - is the essence of a great #city. It is why a great city is as potent an image of freedom as a redwood forest or a sailboat.”
#CharlieDuff #TheNorthAtlanticCities #city
“There should be a monument to the first person who ever came home from a full day's work and cooked dinner. “
#CharlieDuff on the rise of #apartments
“If you think of cities as world of art — and this book has probably mystified you if you do not…”
#Science as the institutionalization of #discontent
#CharlieDuff: “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 #DiscontentedExperts
#Science #discontent #CharlieDuff #DiscontentedExperts
“The #rowhouse was the sign that a place was a #city, or aspired to become one, in the long 18th century. It was what the skyscraper became in the 20th century.”
#rowhouse #city #CharlieDuff #TheNorthAtlanticCities
“Pre-conditions, however, are not actions”
#CharlieDuff #TheNorthAtlanticCities
I'm quite enjoying #CharlieDuff's book #TheNorthAtlanticCities and suddenly realizing he is a neighbor in #Baltimore
He also helps run #JubileeBaltimore https://jubileebaltimore.org
#Duff makes a compelling case that the #rowhome aesthetic I love was perfected in the Netherlands in the 1600s--noting how contemporary these two paintings look
#CharlieDuff #TheNorthAtlanticCities #Baltimore #JubileeBaltimore #Duff #rowhome