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rus in urbe

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rus in urbe

Urban retreat where one could imagine oneself in the countryside. The phrase is from the 1st-century Roman writer Martial's Epigrams.



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Ham is just the ticket: delightfully rus in urbe, all meadows and buttercups, with the Thames curling by, plus its own National Trust stately home and teashop.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Central Park was designed in the 1850s as rus in urbe, an idealized landscape intended to promote social values, and it has become holy ground for joggers and tree-huggers, dog owners and nature-deprived kids on field trips.
Luxuriant and overgrown, these generous fingers of green space were a surprising manifestation of rus in urbe.
 
 
 
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