The Role of Identity in the City Beautiful Movement

Kita understands how it can be at once both completely homogenizing and kind of marketing or selling itself as a sort of unique quirky experience. So the, at the beginning of the city beautiful movement, which could be put as like 1870s Paris, right? Yeah. And they use this new invention of like plate glass to make those famous Parisian cafes. In New York City we're building buildings that are lifted just up off the ground a little bit and are actually designed to like people watch outside onto the street. There's all fantastic books on this.