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Broadly speaking, the city of the future will not bring to its center any goods not intended for use or consumption therein.

— Daniel Burnham The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

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Where a town lies near water, keep all the shore for the people.

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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

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Pessimists abound and have always abounded. To them most of the big and splended things are chimerical.

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We do things that would make our forbears think us magicians.

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It takes far greater ability to subvert liberty now than ever before since man’s history began, and so I promise permanence to democratic institutions.

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