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March 5, 2007

Learning from Lille

Lille-histoire_citadelle.JPGThe Brooklyn Paper, "The Kitchen Sink"

We ran into out old pal Ellen Wurtzel at the Tea Lounge on Union Street this week. After six years and two kids, she's almost done — really — with her dissertation, "Legal Space and Urban Identity: The Shaping of the City of Lille from 1384-1667." Given her understanding of the shaping of Lille, which has very little of its history left, she opposes Atlantic Yards. "Lille was developed and destroyed!" she said.

Posted by lumi at March 5, 2007 11:54 AM