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"The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo."
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"If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself."
"In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us."
"The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo."
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