city

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American

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social scientist

is the chief laboratory for experimentation in living, for interrupting the continuity of traditions and encouraging new ideas, new patterns, and new expectations whereby human advances have been made.

F48 Cities have been the chief, if not the only, laboratory for experimentation in living, for interrupting the continuity of traditions and encouraging new ideas, new patterns, and new expectations whereby human advances have been made. Cities have tolerated deviation from the norms of conduct, have allowed relations not elsewhere permitted... they have encouraged individuality, even permitted ruthless individualism... they have fostered creativity in almost all human activities, but especially in art, literature, music, the professions, and science. The Promise of the City FRANK, Lawrence K. (1890-1968)

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