Growth

Lecture handout: Growth*

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Growth is like an iPhone:

Here is an example of Prague’s enduring beauty. But rather than look at this image and think about preservation of the status quo, I look at it and think of the amazing growth that transformed it from a hamlet to the city shown in 1910. Indeed, any historic and enduring beauty is testimony to previous growth and ambition.

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