Alain Bertaud on Casablanca

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Writing in Discourse, Senior Fellow Alain Bertaud argues “Why ‘Casablanca’ Is the Quintessential City Movie”:

“Casablanca” is not just a wonderful story; it’s a lesson that a city is about people and that everything you build around them—subways, sewer systems, skyscrapers—is there to serve them, not the other way around. City planners should take this lesson from the film and not try to shoehorn people into some abstract vision of what a city should be. Because when city planners put people and their needs first, well, that could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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