The Deleted Scenes

The Deleted Scenes

New and Old #274

The past wasn't better, grocery tourism, the decline of ice cream trucks, and the decline of Kitchen Nightmares

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Addison Del Mastro
Jul 24, 2026
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The immaculate conception of your neighborhood, City Observatory, Joe Cortright, September 24, 2015

[T]he “immaculate conception theory” of neighborhood development….is common all around the country, in communities of many ages—from colonial Boston to postwar Minneapolis—and sets powerful background assumptions about what affordable, friendly neighborhoo…

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