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"There must also be some random accumulations to enable us to discover unexpected relationships. But serendipity is possible only when recollection is essentially a holding fast to what is meaningful and a release of what is not."

— Kevin A. Lynch What Time Is This Place? (1972)

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"To attempt to preserve all of the past would be life-denying."

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"It is taken for granted that in actual design form should be used to reinforce meaning, and not to negative it."

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"The remote past is different, since it does not threaten the present."

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"An environment that cannot be changed invites its own destruction."

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