“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.” IfsHardHelpingForceHoursLinesPowerfulNormalPaidTownsCompetitionWorkersBottomStoresOfferingUnemploymentEmployersBottom LineRobust Author:Christina Romer
“You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.” IfsWantNeedsNormalProjectsIntellectualTownsArchitectureMaking MoneyArchitectUtopianDevelopersSponsors Author:Leon Krier
“Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.” BeautifulCommunityWonderfulFiguresNormalAdvantageTownsBeachOur FamilyParksFamily LifeUpside DownSkatingFigure SkatingConnecticutOur TownGreenwichRiverside Author:Dorothy Hamill
“I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.” GovernmentParentTechnologyGrewNormalGrew UpTownsRaisedCaliforniaCowboyPhysicistLaboratory Author:Cynthia Breazeal
“When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're on the road in small towns. Any time there is awe, it gets very difficult to be normal, to be yourself. But I'm not saying that that's what made me the way I am. I've probably always been distant.” IfsWayMadeDifficultPartyAudienceNormalTownsDistanceBeing YourselfAweSmall TownTouring Author:Steve Martin
“They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking for someone who wanted to buy a pre-built town, which wouldn't have been appropriate for any kind of normal settlement. That's when Robert Owen [Welsh industrialist and utopian socialist] buys the village and founds New Harmony.” KindHas BeensWantedMovingFoundNormalBuiltTownsHarmonyGermanyAppropriateVillageSouthernSocialistSettlementUtopianIndianaPennsylvaniaWelsh Author:Christine Jennings
“When I would knock about the town in London, I was doing it with my head down, walking very quickly and it had become the norm for me because I'm recognized there. And people are not unkind but occasionally there's a sort of British who do you think you are sort of, I don't really think I'm anybody. I just go about my normal day. But sometimes you're faced with that.” PeopleThinkingSometimesWalkingNormalTownsBritishLondonNormUnkind Author:Ewan McGregor
“People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.” PeopleIdeasStreetsNormalTownsSmall Town Book:The Back Door of Midnight Source: The Back Door of Midnight