Neighborhoods like Georgetown or Beacon Hill are walking neighborhoods. It is not necessary to hop in the car to get an ice cream cone or a bottle of aspirin. You walk to a store -- enjoying the felicities of the street as you go -- and you are able to see other people along the way. You may even have a conversation with a stranger. This is called meeting people, the quintessential urban pleasure. (Or else it is called a mugging, the quintessential urban calamity.).
- p. 127, The Geography of Nowhere: the Rise and Fall of America's Man-Made Landscape; James Howard Kunstler)
You are right -- that is funny! Here's mine on Rose City Reader.
ReplyDeleteLOL. Love the last line.
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Hey, I like that!
ReplyDeleteHere's mine:
http://rainysnowday.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/teaser-tuesdays/
funny. But I wish my neighborhood was like that (besides the mugging part)-- meeting friends and strangers while taking a stroll.good ole days
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http://blog.readinggroupchoices.com/content/blog/barbara/10/february/teaser-tuesday-223-angelology-danielle-trussoni
The book argues for the restoration of "human sized" communities and mourns wholesale cultural dependency on automobiles. He does so often with bitter humor.
ReplyDeleteGreat teaser! Hope your enjoying it.
ReplyDeleteHere is mine: http://twe.ly/5Ac
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I'm not gonna lie: when I saw the quote, I went off looking for the summary on Amazon. =D Your teaser haa me intrigued, and I'm definitely going to check out this book. =D
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