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It's not a clean slate, because you've got the infrastructure underground and the streets. Plus, people own all this. You've got rights of way, you've got people's property.
- Witold Rybczynski
The lesson of disasters, natural and manmade, is that we generally rebuild more or less what was there. The reasons for this are probably mainly pragmatic (existing property ownership, buried infrastructure) but also perhaps sentimental: the urge to recreate what had been destroyed, to rebuild the world we knew.
- Witold Rybczynski