please don\’t suffocate us with your fabricated order

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretending order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and be served. (15)

- Jane Jacobs, The death and life of great American cities

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