Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Cultural Foundations of the US Urban Experience

* love of newness
* desire to be near to nature
* freedom to move
* individualism, and its accompanying violence (the fight to win, struggle to succeed)
* melting pot of peoples
* sense of destiny


Source: Muller, Peter O. 2004. "Transportation and Urban Form: Stages in the Spatial Evolution of the American Metropolis," in The Geography of Urban Transportation, Third Edition

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