“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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The cliché: we are stardust. Remnants of a supernova Trapped underneath our fingernails, And the tectonic fingernail itself. I cough out a cloud of dust and gas and wonder When I will