I just have to say that whenever I see a newer elegant city plan like this, or in Paris or somewhere, adjoining or imposed over the historic cow-path plan of the old city... I get all giggly.
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"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
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