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Article: The (unreasonable) argument for our existence.(sinking of New Orleans)
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- World Watch
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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The world's greatest cities shouldn't exist. Venice has been sinking for centuries. San Francisco straddles the San Andreas fault. New York is an irresistible multicultural target for haters of diversity and tolerance. Paris and Prague can be transformed into piles of cobblestones and barricades by revolutionary mobs. New Orleans is a bowl set amid barely contained waters in a fetid swamp.
One can make a rational argument against cities, to arrive in the end at the ultimate rational argument: cities shouldn't exist. From inadvisable geography to undesirable sociology, from the vicissitudes of nature to the ill-will of men, large concentrations of buildings and ...
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