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Gas Half Full

Partial urbanism is good enough

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Addison Del Mastro
Sep 26, 2024
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Sometimes you see the sentiment expressed, by snobs or radicals, that suburbia is basically unsalvageable and should ideally not exist or be the subject of slow, incremental improvements. Hopeless! Why bother? Lipstick on a pig, deck chairs on the Titanic, etc.

It should be clear to anyone who’s followed me for awhile that I absolutely do not take this v…

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