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By Alex Marshall 3/25/02 12:00am

Atlas Is Still Shrugging-And Riding the Subway

When I take the subway, and enter into that labyrinth of tunnels and tracks that transport some five million of us daily, I think about Atlas Shrugged , that mad, 1,200-page homage to money and markets written by Ayn Rand, the late Russian émigré accustomed to wearing an embroidered silver dollar sign on her black Read More

By Alex Marshall 7/30/01 12:00am

How Urban Should Your City Be?

As the Mayor’s race begins to heat up, perhaps it’s a good

time to prompt some discussion about not only crime, schools and jobs, but

something both more conceptual and more concrete, such as what kind of city we

want to be.

The words “urban” and

“suburban” are irritatingly vague, and used as both Read More