Tangentially Pynchon. see today's Google Doodle

[Monte Davis]

I assure you I will give due weight to these insights, and due weight to 25
years of my family's (and 25,000 neighbors') experience.

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 2:45 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also I forgot to mention another very important aspect of old-urbanism's
> semi-public spaces where "owners" of the street could be its defenders:
>  Those stoops, porches and fire escapes naturally resulted in residents
> interacting with their neighbors, forming community bonds, knowing who on
> the street lived in their neighborhood, and who didn't.  Streets thus had
> many "mayors" wise to normal street patterns, and they defended their
> neighbors as well as their streets.
>
> David Morris
>
>
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