“A city is measured by the character of its institutions. The street is one of its first institutions. Today these institutions are on trial,” declared architect Louis Kahn in a 1971 address
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In 1970, Joni Mitchell had a strange dream. As she reports it, she was in an auditorium watching “a big fat woman’s tuba band.” The audience beside Joni whooped over the gleeful
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