Share I’m always telling people that the world’s greatest neighborhoods are terrible places to park, and it’s no coincidence. … Part of the reason you don’t see much parking in back, of course, is that if this is a successful urban neighborhood, someone is going to come along with a more valuable use for that [...]
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Re: The world’s greatest neighborhoods
by Jon Swerens on February 11, 2008, in Neighborhoods, Urbanism
Bonhoeffer and responsibility
by Jon Swerens on January 3, 2008, in Books
Share (Jon) I’m getting inspired by Dietrich Bonhoeffer‘s “Life Together,” and I have yet to get beyond the introduction. Here are two quotes from the book’s intro that ring true: “The sin of respectable people reveals itself in flight from responsibility.” — Bonhoeffer’s friend Eberhard Bethge “For him Christianity could never be merely intellectual theory, [...]

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