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Louis Kahn Quotes: A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.
         

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.


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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.



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