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Re:The accidentally resilient design of Athens apartments by arethuza on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:02AM (#23845332)
"all cities look the same"

Except, of course, for the one that has as a centrepiece a huge old fortress (still used by the local military) on the plug on an ancient volcano. ;-)

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Re:The accidentally resilient design of Athens apartments by 0x01DEED on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:29AM (#23845667)
I need to be more accurate... Most cities look similar (beautiful, neat, European)
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Re:The accidentally resilient design of Athens apartments by GlennS on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:13PM (#23853572)
I dunno. I always thought that one looked kind of like a scaled-up version of Bath.
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Re:The accidentally resilient design of Athens apartments by metabagel on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:41AM (#23846821)
Which city is that?
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Re:The accidentally resilient design of Athens apartments by Someone on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:57PM (#23847995)
Edinburgh? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Castle#Geology)
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Re:The accidentally resilient design of Athens apartments by arethuza on Thursday July 16, 2020 @08:14AM (#23858182)
Correct

"But Edinburgh is a mad god’s dream,

Fitful and dark,

Unseizable in Leith

And wildered by the Forth,

But irresistibly at last

Cleaving to somber heights

Of passionate imagining

Till stonily,

From soaring battlements,

Earth eyes eternity."

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