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The City Is An Addictive Machine From Which There Is No Escape

We Say We Want To Create Beauty, Identity, Quality, Singularity. And Yet, Maybe In Truth These Cities That We Have Are Desired. Maybe Their Very Characterlessness Provides The Best Context For Living.

Most Old Cities Are Now Sclerotic Machines That Dispense Known Qualities In Ever-greater Quantities, Instead Of Laboratories Of The Uncertain. Only The Skyscraper Offers Business The Wide-open Spaces Of A Man-made Wild West, A Frontier In The Sky.

Journalists Seem Mostly Interested In What Brand Of Shoes I Wear.

Nigeria Was A Blank On The Map - There Weren't Even Any Maps. The Us State Department, Everyone Said Don't Go There. It Was Courageous Of Harvard University: The Notion Was That We Would Match Harvard Students With Nigerian Students, So That Every Student Would Have A Guide, Creating A Guarantee Of Intimacy With The City.