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“A city without some form of a transect is like a country without a constitution; It is a breeding ground for spatial anarchy.”

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Book:Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities

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Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities

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