¶ City
Index Entry
City:
"Why do we want a city? We don’t start off with cities being a priori to man on our planet. It’s something that has evolved. Most things about our cities are completely obsolete. . . I’ll have to say how the cities occurred: They really started with wars. If you go around Europe you’ll still find yourself going through the city wall gates. . . They started being places where goods are bought, where caravans and trading ships began to find themselves in confluence by nature, where they could be in anchorage. And they develop great warehouses and it really gets to be a kind of exploitation trap.
“Then Henry Ford found that it costs you money to have things in warehouses. They were unnecessary. You could have your goods stored in transit. . . Everybody’s trying to get out from under all the monopolies and all the exploitations. . . In the Greeks time the thinkers were in the mountains and on the beaches, and the city was occupied with the goods and warehouses controlled by the fighters and walls. All that has changed but man had the metaphysical deployed and the physical concentrated in the city.”
