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| ac93f57 | Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. | money detroit urban-planning design london paris rome | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| c45d645 | in Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising. The Second American Revolution. | race-riot detroit middlesex riots revolution | Jeffrey Eugenides |