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New and Old #205

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Addison Del Mastro
Mar 13, 2025
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Your Neighborhood Does Not Belong To You, Flaneurbanist, Billy Cooney, February 17, 2025

The language used here—destroy, overtake, tower over—is used to paint development as oppressive. This is not only hyperbolic. This view is fundamentally incompatible with the nature of a city. Any city’s natural inclination is to grow and change. What people fail to…

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