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Why Your Books Got the City Centre Wrong
Daniel grew up reading Orwell and Frank McCourt, absorbing the idea that city centres are synonymous with poverty. Then he moved to Jerusalem and watched thirty-seven-storey luxury towers rise around him. This episode unpacks the disconnect: where did the "inner city equals poverty" literary trope come from, was it ever universally true, and what does Jerusalem's building boom tell us about a pattern that's reversing in real time? We trace the industrial-era mechanisms that created the slums of Dickens' London, the postwar policies that hollowed out American downtowns, and the current global…
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