Freed slaves with nowhere else to live built shanties on open hillsides or in partly drained mangrove swamps.
"A city well performing in a forward-looking way in economy, people, governance, mobility, environment, and living, built on the smart combination of endowments and activities of self-decisive, independent, and aware citizens" [24].
But as a place to live, build a home and create a culture it feels the most unlikely site for human society.
This is because now we are under immense pressure to re-create the way we live, build and act in the world.
We are constantly improving and adapting to new circumstances the way we live, build houses, and embrace technology.
It rests with the slaves who in their stolen lives built so much of this country.
Mr. Colbert awarded some media outlets a medal for helping keep fear alive; Mr. Stewart gave out his awards to average Americans who go about their business every day in lives built on compromise and comity.
In a special programme for BBC Radio 5 live, built around interviews recorded at their training bases in the United States, Salazar and Dan Pfaff - Rutherford's coach - revealed what they believe to be the templates for success in track and field.
What troubles me are the implications of experiential culture becoming so prevalent, and the consequences of social lives built around "trying everything once".
Both shows are constructed around tightly wound, driven women, they're both shot with crisp immediacy and they both explore difficult lives built on queasy, unstable compromises.
