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“… the article finishes by asking her to sum up landscape architecture in one word.
“Civicness”, says Gustafson, going on to relate something that happened in her adopted home of Paris, when a car full of men stopped near her house and dropped litter in the gutter. “I picked it up, and knocked on the car door, and said: ‘Not in my park!’, and they drove off, looking sheepish. It was so instinctive for me. ‘Hey, wait a minute. You’re not going to put your trash in my neighbourhood!” “
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