You may be familiar with this famous New Yorker cover from 1976, by Saul Steinberg:
View of the World from 9th Avenue
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But before that unabashed parochialism, there was this from 1970:
A New Yorker’s Map of America
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Perhaps rather than, “parochial”, the word we are looking for is, “sustainable”?
People living in dense areas like Manhattan and Vancouver’s own West End may seem “narrow” for not leaving often, but if the reason they don’t leave is that their surrounding community gives them all that they need, shouldn’t we be celebrating this? Someone with a “broader” perspective may simply be spending more time in a car, watching the landscape speed by, to accomplish what a resident of a more complete community can accomplish with a walk down the street.