I challenge anyone to name a quainter, cozier�town than Georgetown (which also�has�15-minute access to a city)�- or one in which it is more difficult to park a car. It might be worth it to be a politician just to live there for a while. Georgetown beats Cambridge Mass.�hands down as a place to live.
Every city in America which destroyed their 19th century factories, train stations, town houses etc. during the 70s government-funded frenzy for "urban renewal" is crying today.
Case in point, as our�Dylanologist keeps reminding us, is Nashville which would be packed with pubs, shops, tourists,�and million-dollar townhouses today if they had not bulldozed the old�downtown to "modernize" it, to sterilize it, and to erase its history along with every human-scale building. So people go to the disgusting�malls, which are, happily, a dying fad.
Like Bridgeport and Hartford, CT, the urban renewalist Stalin-inspired and highly-educated planning geniuses removed every reason a person might want to go, or to live, downtown. Only the backwater cities escaped that assault. Lucky for them. The supremely elegant and�lovely Savannah, Georgia is my prime example, but we will do Alexandria, VA in a couple of days - same story but without the aristocratic flavor of Savannah.
God bless Jane Jacobs.�I was fortunate to hear her speak once in New York on the subject of Harlem.
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With all the posts Bird Dog and I have written about the tragic fate of�so much of the nation's architectural legacy�during the 1960s and 70s (here and here, for examples), I decided to put a more positive spin on things by focusing instead on those for
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