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All relative

Wednesday, 18 April 2007
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James Lileks on an old photo of a Minneapolis hotel: *This is the city that was smaller than the one in which I live today, but seemed so much more bigger.*

Was it television? Automobiles? The city seemed bigger because people filled its public realm in a way we only see in the very largest cities today. Have people left out of free will, or coercion?

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