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December 20, 2010

Arts History World Travel

In Search of Lost Paris

“Most cities spread like inkblots; a few, such as Manhattan, grew in linear increments. Paris expanded in concentric rings, approximately shown by the spiral numeration of its arrondissements.”

Luc Sante New York Review of Books Dec 2010 Permalink