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Urbanism
Urbanism is the study of how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment.
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I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are called) is related to the mixture possible in other part of cities.
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― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Every neighborhood must be allowed to grow and change... The reality is that a place that is not changing is dying.
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