To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Day By Day
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Save the Suburbs!
Paul Jacobs takes on the New Urbanists who want to destroy the bucolic splendor of his suburban existence. Like most planners, these guys want to cram more people into managed urban communities in the interest of greater efficiency. Thank goodness there are suburban and rural environs where people can still escape their malignant influence.
Read Jacob's article here.