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	10/22 RJ is currently reading: Man-Made Philadelphia (Paperback) by Richard Saul Wurman bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	10/22 RJ is currently reading: Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback) by James Howard Kunstler bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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	09/13 RJ is currently reading: Wpa Guide to Philadelphia (American Guide Series.) by Richard J. Liebster bookshelves: currently-reading	my rating:
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October 23

New comment on RJ's review of Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

RJ wrote: "When he's going through the history of cities, how they're built, how they've developed in the US ov...more "

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October 22

RJ is currently reading:
Man-Made Philadelphia (Paperback)
by Richard Saul Wurman
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Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by James Howard Kunstler
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September 13

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Wpa Guide to Philadelphia (American Guide Series.)
by Richard J. Liebster
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September 08

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It Can't Happen Here (Paperback)
by Sinclair Lewis

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Direction of Cities (Paperback)
by John Guinther

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read in September, 2008

RJ said: "Not bad. Very Philadelphia-in-the-50s-centric which I didn't expect, but was good. Guinther definitely got a lot of that segment from the Philadelphia urban renewal chapter of Cities In a Race With Time. Also, a healthy dose of anti-Robert Mos...more "

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August 26

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Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream (Hardcover)
by M. Jeffrey Hardwick

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RJ said: "Kind of fascinating- the architect who began the movement of Hudson's to the Detroit suburbs with Northland, turned Kalamazoo's downtown into a pedestrian mall.

Gruen was filled with conflicting theories- hated the automobile, yet his redesigns fo...more "

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August 24