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Michel de Certeau Quotes: More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
         

More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.


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