It is a common feeling that most urban places are less than satisfactory-uncomfortable, ugly, or dull-as if they were being measured on some absolute scale. Only fragments of the settled world are generally excepted from this dismal view: an affluent suburb, a fine park, a historic town, the vital centre of some great city, an old farming region. If we could be articulate about why we feel that way, we might be prepared to make effective changes. (Lynch, 1981, p. 1)
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