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Why do we speak of cities as laboratories?

Alex Howard

Alex Howard

Feb 2, 2016·1 min read

Great read by Andrew R. Schrock: https://medium.com/@aschrock/why-do-we-talk-about-cities-as-laboratories-c3d70ff7244f

I was surprised, however, that he didn’t reference Justice Brandeis, who famously described states as “laboratories of democracy.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratories_of_democracy

Alex Howard

Dad, writer, citizen, chef, cyclist, skeptical optimist, cereal dilettante. Open government advocate at E-PluribusUnum.org.

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