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An emotion was swelling in my throat. It took me a moment to recognize what it was. I had been old and stern for so long, carved with regrets and years like a monolith. But that was only a shape I had been poured into. I did not have to keep it.
If we are rediscovering some of the timeless qualities of our older urban forms and updating them to contemporary situations, perhaps the same will be true of our transit systems. The next revolution in transit may not be high-tech; it may be old-fashioned rail updated to be environmentally clean, scaled to the modern metropolis, and styled to new sensibilities.
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
Peter Calthorpe
Racism refers to the theory and the practice of applying a social, civic, or legal double standard based on ancestry, and to the ideology surrounding such a double standard. That may be what the economist Glenn Loury intends when he identifies “a withholding of the presumption of equal humanity.”50 Racism is not an emotion or state of mind, such as intolerance, bigotry, hatred, or malevolence.
Racecraft
Barbara J. Fields, Karen Fields
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