Speaking of downtowns, urbanity, and subjects sublime: Individuals of a romantic bent long have deplored big cities. Jefferson may have designed the Capitol but he did not like cities, not one little bit. Thoreau preferred Walden Pond. This is an urbanized nation, yet, "'elbow room,' said Daniel Boone" as he and countless others pushed further west, in search of wilderness. Count us among the city's fans. Although Eden was a garden, we suspect there is a reason St. Augustine wrote The City of God.