American city

is a place where the post office looks like the Parthenon, the home of the town's richest citizen is a replica of Blenheim Palace, and everybody else lives like a Texas rancher.

An American city is a place where the post office looks like the Parthenon, the home of the town's richest citizen is a replica of Blenheim Palace, and everybody else lives like a Texas rancher . Life, December 24, 1965

is always in the process of becoming - Americans have not so much built their cities and their noncities as assembled them from do-it-yourself kits.

American city life has never stood still for more than a nanosecond. It is always in the process of becoming. ff the past has little inOuence, the future is thereby closer. Americans have not so much built the ir cities and their noncities as assembled them from do - it - yourself kits. Ibid.

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