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is a vast collection of memories and expressions of emotion, with its greatest concentration of human meanings at its center, and a gradual thinning out of emotional acvalue until one reaches the drabness of the fringes.

A city is a vast collection of memories and express ions of emotion, with its greatest concentration of human meanings at its center, and a gradual thinning out of emotional value until one reaches the drabness of the fringes . But these are not separate and distinct emotions: rather they build upon and reinforce each other, and thus we get that organization which characterizes a great city. But it is not a biological form or organization, and organism; it is an organization of meanings and va lues. I believe that the real source or fascination or the city is that it represents the widest and fullest expression or a ll the types or meaning which man has achieved. The city is what we mean by civili;1.ation. (Speech, National Conference on Urban Life, March 28, 1962)

is found fascinating because it is the widest and fullest expression or all the types or meaning which man has achieved.

is not a biological form or organization, and organism, it is an organization of meanings and values.

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Mason W. Gross