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— Jane Jacobs"Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them."
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Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires.
— Jane Jacobs
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.
— Margaret Atwood
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