Urbanism And Lent

Pleasurable things can also be constructive

I’ve written about this basic idea before, but because it’s the first day of Lent, I’d like to return to it here. I often think about the tensions within American anti-urbanism. How on the one hand, there’s the idea that cities are unpleasant (overcrowded, grimy, dirty, loud, dangerous, etc.) places to be in. But on the other hand, there seems to be an …