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Cities have long been acknowledged as primary organs of cultural development; that is, of the vast and intricate collections of ideas and institutions called civilization, and I have no intention of laboring that point.

—The Economy of Cities, Jane Jacobs

Below are the half-deranged rambles of a man who enjoys making sweeping cultural claims and thereafter judging them on the basis of his own aesthetics. These reflections are in roughly reverse chronological order, and are all entirely first drafts (I hate editing, and as it is not strictly necessary to edit these I will not do so).

If you find any particularly compelling, feel free to email me! Likewise if you want to argue.

(there are also depressingly many placeholders here. I’ll get to all of them someday)

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Cambridge
Clarksville
Rome
Taipei
Nummela
Newbridge-on-Wye
Kyiv
Tbilisi
Istanbul
Avebury
Delhi
Manali
Tokyo
Hakuba
Warsaw
London
Paris
Geneva
Boston
Toledo
Ann Arbor
Prague
Berkeley
Oxford
San Francisco