Attributed to a comment from Richard Chubb about a neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1995. Used to be and what is no more, houses not buildings, vitality not vacant lots. The answer to the question of “What was it like before urban renewal?” Places that have a special quality that is greater than the sum of their parts. Neighborhoods can have magic. (Fullilove, 2004) 2. A sentence composed from photographs of commercial signage as demonstrated in Learning from Las Vegas. (Kremer, 2025)
