Alexandria

city

is the city of the whole civilized world.

All cities are only cities in relationship to the territory they are in. In relationship to Alexandria they are but villages, for Alexandria is the city of the whole civil ized world. Matrix of Man

is as if organic, renewing itself unit by unit in a slow, time-bound metabolic process.

Cities, like men, are embodiments of the past and mirages of unfulfilled dreams. They thrive on economy and waste, on exploit at ion and charity, on the initiative of the ego and the solidarity or the group. They stagnate and ultimately die under imposed standardization, homogenized equality, and a minimum denominator of man - made environment. Most decisive of a ll, cities, like mankind, renew themselves unit by unit in a slow, time - bound metabolic process. Ibid.

is the urban form in which man constructs the superimage of his ideal self.

Man has built and loved cities because in the urban form he constructs the superimage of his ideal self. The common denominator of cities, from Nineveh to New York, is a collective idol worship , praying for power over nature, destiny, knowledge, and wealth . Ibid.

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