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“In dreams, I saw the silent city, the towers and temples and crumbling bridges.”
Allen Ginsberg
Dreamscape
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Urban
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Imagination
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Architectural Vision
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Inner Landscape
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Surreal Exploration
2.
“Every street lamp that I pass Beats like a fatalistic drum, And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium.”
T.S. Eliot
Isolation
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Melancholy
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Night
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Reflection
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Haunting
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Urban
3.
“This melancholy London – I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.”
William Butler Yeats
Melancholy London
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Lost Souls
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Streets Perpetual
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Ghostly
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Urban
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Reflection
4.
“It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London.”
Henry James
City Life
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Reflection
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Complexity
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London
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Urban
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Diversity
5.
“London is on the whole the most possible form of life.”
Henry James
Urban Possibility
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City Life
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Life
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City
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Urban
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Possibility
6.
“I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”
Sylvia Plath
Lost Direction
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Urban Confusion
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New York
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Lost
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Confusion
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Urban
7.
“I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Urban Critique
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City Aesthetics
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Urban
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Critique
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Aesthetics
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City
8.
“The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Urban Development
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Technology Race
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City
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Development
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Technology
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Urban
9.
“The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears – as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Urban Life Critique
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City Sounds
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City
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Critique
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Sounds
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Urban
10.
“To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Urban Design Criticism
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City Architecture
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Design
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Architecture
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Criticism
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Urban
11.
“From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn’t fastened down slides into Southern California.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Geographical Changes
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Urban Shift
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Geography
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Urban
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Change
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Shift
12.
“Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Urban Criticism
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Modern Architecture
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Architecture
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Urban
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Criticism
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Modern
13.
“Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Urban Critique
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City Preservation
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City
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Preservation
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Critique
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Urban
14.
“Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Government Improvement
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Urban Vision
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Government
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Improvement
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Vision
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Urban
15.
“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
Urban Beauty
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City Potential
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Beauty
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City
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Urban
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Potential
16.
“I like the way the City makes people think they can do what they want and get away with it.”
Toni Morrison
City Life
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Freedom
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Rebellion
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Society
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Independence
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Urban
17.
“It isn’t like the rest of the country – it is like a nation itself – more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.”
John Steinbeck
New York
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Cities
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Society
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Tolerance
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Culture
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Urban
18.
“The sewer is the conscience of the city.”
Victor Hugo
City Conscience
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Sewer Reflection
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Urban Truth
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City
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Conscience
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Urban
19.
“It’s true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.”
Simone de Beauvoir
New York
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Urban Reflection
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Small Towns
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Cultural Distinction
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Capital
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Urban
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Rachel Hollis
Bob Proctor
Dan Sullivan
Susan Cain
Michael Hyatt
Mark Cuban
Les Brown
Patrick Bet-David
Neil Gaiman
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Mahatma Gandhi
Eleanor Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Oprah Winfrey
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