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The dishonest mask of pretended order There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities A City Is Not a Tree order