metropolis

is a center of culture as well as a home of uncultured masses whose debased standards present a constant threat to our culture.

The best and the worst things happen in cities. The metropolis is a center of culture as well as a home of uncultured masses whose debased standards present a constant threat to our culture. It is the source of law and order and the headquarters of crime... a religious and ecclesiastical center and a place of indifference and piety. The great city lives in a perpetual state of paradox. In the Bible, side by side we find images like Sodom, Gomorrah, and Babylon on the one hand and Zion and the New Jerusalem on the other. The Children of God in the City of Man CASSERLY, J.V. Langmead (1909 )

is a form that should have been aborted long before it became new york, london or tokyo.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo. John Kenneth Galbraith

is a nucleus of power and an almost irresistible magnet that draws men and women from the countryside to the cities where the big money, the big decisions, and the big reputations are made.

In our modern civilization, the metropolis is an almost irresistible magnet. For generations there has been a continuing drift of men and women from the countryside to the cities, and especially to the biggest ones. For the metropolis is where, by and large, the big money, the big decisions, and the big reputations are made. It is the nucleus ol power. The Big Change in Suburbia ALLEN, Frederick Lewis (1890-1954)

is, by its nature, able to provide the 'strange' which is otherwise only given by traveling.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling... namely, the strange. Jane Jacobs

is a rat's cage for Homo sapiens, often producing similar results

is a large city whose inhabitants have neighborhoods but no neighbors.

A metropolis is a large city whose inhabitants have neighborhoods but no neighbors.

is a place where, in the long run, the increase in leisure time could lead either to panem et circenses ('bread and circuses') or to otium cum dignitate ('leisure with dignity') depending on how our cultural structure develops.

In the long run the development of the metropolis is likely to be influenced most powerfully by improvements in transportation and communication and by the increase in leisure time. The first may lead to an expansion of the metropolis that will embrace a whole region. The second, depending on future developments in mankind's social structure and culture, may lead to panem et circenses ('bread and circuses') or to otium cum dignitate ('leisure with dignity') Both are possible in the metropolis.

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