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Is it not actually rather strange, how little concern the public has or, to be more precise, how little concern the public per se has for the cityscape? For the city is the most public manifestation of our shared life, the most visible representation of human activity. And if someone were to dig us up in two thousand years, once all knowledge of our written language had disappeared, the cityscape would be the only thing by which we might be judged.
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Fezer, J., Schmitz, M. (2012). Urban Planning and Democracy (1957). In: Fezer, J., Schmitz, M. (eds) Lucius Burckhardt Writings. Rethinking Man-made Environments. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1257-1_1
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