The very design

The very design of the suburbs inhibited the gathering of citizens who might want to mount a protest. Instead of broad parks at the steps of city hall, there were four-lane streets without sidewalks, and malls that were not public at all but privately owned and patrolled by security guards.

Mark Sundeen
The Unsettlers

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