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There are many different ways of seeing a town for the first time. One of them is to walk around it, guidebook__1__hand. Of course, we may__2__with our guidebooks the history and__3__developments of a town and get to know them.__4__then, if we take our time and__5__in a town for a while, we may get to know it better. When we__6__it as a whole, we begin to have some__7__which even the best guidebooks do not answer. Why is the town just__8__this, this shape, this plan, this size? Why do its streets__9__in this particular way, and not in any__10__way?
Here even the best guidebook__11__us. One can't find in it the information about how a town has developed to the__12__appearance. It may not describe the original (最初)__13__of a town. However, one may get some idea of what it__14__look like by walking around the town. One can also imagine__15__the town was first planned and built. Then one can learn more about in what direction the town__16__to develop.
What is the__17__of studying towns in this way? For me, it is__18__that one gets a greater depth of pleasure by visiting and seeing a town with one's own eyes. A__19__visit to a town may help one better understand why it is attractive__20__just reading about it in a guidebook.
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