Marc Rowan: belief

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…Here’s a question I’ve asked a number of guests. Patrick Collison and I both have made the observation. It seems there are really very, very few attractive residential neighborhoods built after World War II in this country. Or if you look at Europe, places rebuilt after wartime damage. They’re mostly ugly or mediocre, or maybe at best okay. You might challenge the premise, but why do you think we’ve lost the ability to build beautiful neighborhoods? Plenty of lovely homes, lovely individual corporate buildings, but neighborhoods? All the good ones are old. Why? Well, you got here first. Whoever got here first took the good physical location. I think we’re in a rebuilding mode, certainly in most of this country, and certainly in Western Europe. There are beautiful things and beautiful neighborhoods being created. I’m back from 12 days in the Middle East. We can like or not like the style of what’s being built, but the scale, the ambition, the new neighborhoods, the ability to create new is extraordinary. And where impressed you there?…

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