Ben Wilson
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The United Kingdom
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“Dickens became one of the greatest interpreters of urban life because he was a prodigious walker; his visceral encounters with the physical and human cityscape run through all his work. Urban literature is bound up with walking, because walking takes you away from the familiar, down “long perplexing lanes untrod before,” as John Gay put it in his 1716 poem “Trivia; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London.”
― Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
― Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
“All adolescents want to escape from home into the world, not vice versa as adults do. The suburbs naturally mark a front line of conflict between teenagers and parents, a clash of values and aspirations.”
― Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
― Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
“The light in which the city is cast by writers, poets and artists helps determine the kind of cities we get.”
― Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
― Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
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