Kieran Shields Quotes

[What A Great Way To Describe How A City Takes Its Unique "shape"...beautiful Turn-of-phrase By Kieran Shields(!)]:

"It Was A City Of Slopes, Curves, And Dips Carved By Glaciers And Now Criss-crossed By A Network Of Angled Streets And Blocks, Unfettered By Any Sense Of Regularity And Uniformity. Portland's Maze Of Cobbled Roads Was The Result Of Two And A Half Centuries Of Fisherman And Merchants Driven By Immediate Necessity And That Economy Of Steps That Occurs Naturally In A Place Where Winters Often Lasted Five Months Out Of The Year.

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