I COME TO PRAISE THE CITY

  • “The modern city is a city of contradictions….it houses many ethnes, many cultures, many religions. [It] is too fragmentary, too full of contrast and strife; it must therefore have many faces, not one…. The lack of any coherent, explicit, image may therefore, in our circumstances, be a positive virtue, not a fault, or even a problem.” – The New Republic 10/30/00