Watching the city grow and change
year to year from a car window
is impossible until squinting at
the faded blue paint on a brick building
announcing a grocery store;
seeing empty lots where
‘remember that house that was there’;
driving down a street that once was
the middle of a grain field;
houses worn and crumpling
from years with prairie weather,
some kept up and still as neat and tidy
as when they were young ~
sporting new siding and new roofs;
office buildings and housing units
sprouted like new shoots of wheat in the spring;
new scaffolding asks ‘what’s that going to be?’
Watching the city grow and change
year to year from a car window.
“A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama time.”
~ Patrick Geddes, Science, City and Regional Planning, Sociology
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