Stockholm has everything other European cities have: culture, history and amazing architecture.

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But whatever the contradictions of a life designed to provoke and dazzle, Philip Johnson ceaselessly promoted architecture as the art that has shaped the great monuments and cities of history, and he sincerely believed that we owe the future a legacy of equal value.

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"Large, fast-growing cities like Los Angeles suddenly decant population out to smaller cities inland, " says Robert Bruegmann, a professor of architecture and urban planning at the University of Illinois.

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More credit then to the Architecture Foundation for taking the risk of thinking the unthinkable and showing that cities do not have to be dominated by traffic .

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"It is a city's architecture and public art that makes it unique and helps it to stand out from other international cities, " said Mr Campbell.

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