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The Subtopia of Suburbanism

The real countryside is disappearing, and with it some kind of place that man needs to go to for spiritual renewal. The old contrast and varied character of the countryside and the city are being flattened out by universal infrastructure into every unspore view. And there's this thing that he calls subtopia, which has gone from being a line on a map to being a kind of universal condition, which is spread all over everything.

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