A quote from an article I found linked on Ron Lusk’s site (I saw that Radio broke your link, Ron,  but being a fellow Radio user and knowing of its tendency to do that,  I plugged in your blog path in front of it and got the link)

“My interest and my professional efforts focus is upon the public life of our cities. I have documented and lamented its decline in a considerable number of publications, the best known of which is a book entitled The Great Good Place which identifies informal public gathering places as essential to community and public life. My interest in Maxwell Street is simply that of preserving its vitality and its inclusiveness against the sterility which threatens.“|from Open Air