2011-05-09
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quote 18:29:00
“ All the surveys use an index. But what is on it? “There’s always proximity to nature,” says Tyler Brûlé (editor of Monocle and patron saint of liveable cities and airport lounges. ”
Edwin Heathcote quoting Tyler Brûlé in the Financial Times piece Liveable v lovable, critiquing those “best cities to live in” lists that never list the cities people actually live in (notably London and New York). It’s doing the rounds, and it’s well worth a read.
This quote leapt out at me, because (as I mentioned in my post about driving), one of the best things about San Francisco is, apparently, that it’s easy to leave. Call me a dyed in the wool urbanophile, but isn’t the point of a good city that you don’t want to?
