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The Greatest Grid

The history of a city is inscribed in its streets

By Lulu on March 11, 2012

Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. -Rem Koolhaas What the Museum of the City of New York lacks in a memorable, rolls off your tongue kind of [...]

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