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Did you ever notice how nice cities look from the air? At around 3k feet they look pretty cool. Then you get on the ground and very abruptly things look different.

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Or as Sir Kenneth Clark says at the start of the last episode of "Civilization":

"At a distance, (New York) does look rather like a celestial city. At a distance. Come closer...and it's not so good."

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