New and Old #37

Friday roundup and commentary

A Traditional Christmas Needs A Real Downtown, New Urbs, Matthias Leyrer, December 8, 2017

This article comes from the New Urbs project at The American Conservative, and it’s a lovely ode to the kinds of built environments that jibe with and enhance the spirit of the holidays. (I wrote at shorter length about that a few days ago here.) Leyrer writes:

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