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is a collective body of persons sufficient in themselves for all the purposes of life.

A city is a collective body of persons sufficient in themselves for all the purposes of life. Politics ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

is a drain on the country of the best part of its population: The flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, and the country is cultivated by a so much inferior class.

The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, and the country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)

is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city... and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city... and in turn, urban forms condition mind. (Lewis Mumford)

The Image of The City', Kevin Lynch defines the city as a form of temporal art [1]. Much like sculptures, cities are spatial structures, but unlike sculptures, cities are too large to be experienced in a single try' (net)

is a great school for principle for the man who passes through its temptations, and yet holds on, unyielding, to the right will be proved as if by fire.

A city life is a great school for principle, because it affords a keen trial for principle. The man who passes through its temptations, and yet holds on, unyielding, to the right will be proved as if by fire. Christianity, The Perfection of True Manliness CHAPIN, Edwin H. (1814-1880)

is a great solitude. So many thousands of men, and not one friend.

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city. So many thousands of men, and not one friend. BOISTE, Pierre Claude Victoire (1765-1824)

is a large-scale embodiment of the soul. He says, 'to consider the soul is to squint at little letters from afar. To regard the city is to look at the same letters but much larger and closer at hand'.

Now. the whole question of what exactly a 'city' actually is, for Plato. onlyemerges secondarily within the long discussion as to the true nature of justice.Indeed. the reason for 'constructing a city in speech,' as Socrates describes theproceedings. is in order to discern its nature on a larger scale than would havebeen possible if one considered justice in the soul. Socrates says that to considerthe 'soul' is akin to squinting at little letters from afar off. whilst to regard thecity is to look at the same letters. though much larger and closer to hand. (Itshould be noted here. as an aside. that this is curious. since the Socratic injunctionto know oneself would seem to suggest that the soul is the thing nearest tooneself. But in fact here it seems that our soul is further away from us even thanthe city. Of course, the reason for the soul's distance from us is that it is morethan itself... it is transcendent. However. as we shall see. this is not to suggest thatthe city does not also exceed itself, that it is not in some sense also more thanitself.) However. although for Socrates' dialogue in the Republic. a discussion ofthe city was a detour on the way to an apprehension of true justice. which isassumed to reside primarily in the soul, in this chapter, things will happen inreverse. Justice will become our detour towards a discernment of the city. Why'Because in the end, justice proved to be Plato's detour as well. He finally showsthat one can only arrive at justice when one has gone beyond justice into theinhabited domain of the city, which will turn out to involve more than justicefor the full exercise of virtue. I reserve for the conclusion of this essay a discussionof the way in which for Plato one can only arrive at a true city when onehas gone beyond philosophy. which is also to have gone beyond the city. not inthe sense of going outside the city walls. but of having gone beyond the ethicalinto the religious.

is a manifestation of the modern. Urban space is the locus of class struggle.

for Benjamin, the 'city is a manifestation of the modern' and the 'urban space is the locus of class struggle' (Cuadra, Alvaro)

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