city

is a place to which man is becoming adapted, but his is an adaptation to a failed and confused project, similar to the adaptation of a prisoner to his conditions.

We must face the fact that modern man has failed to build adequate cities. In the past his problems were simpler, and he solved them by trial and error. Now human forces and mechanical ones are mixed and man is confused. He tries and fails. We say he will become adapted. Yes, he is running the danger of becoming adapted, since adaptation is only meaningful if it means the welfare of man. Prisoners, too, become adapted to conditions! For man to adapt to our present cities would be a mistake, since he is the great prisoner. Not only is man unsafe in his prison, but he is lacing a great crisis and heading for disaster. Saturday Review, March 18, 1967 DOXIADIS, Constantinos A. (1913-1975)

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