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Jonathan Raban's comments
Posted Wed, Jul 11, 11:43 a.m.
But What Do We Mean When We Say "Seattle"?: Bolstered by the figures in Richard Morrill's article yesterday, I think our use and perception of the city in which we live is changing. Seattle, narrowly defined by its city limits and its 600,000 (?) population, seems increasingly less important than ...
MOREPosted Sat, Jul 7, 10:11 a.m.
No nostalgia, no "bemoaning": The point of the piece, as I saw it, was the very recent (i.e. since I came here, only 17 years ago) transition that Seattle has made from being a regional to a post-regional (or de-regionalized) city. I wasn't at all "bemoaning" the change, merely observing ...
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