¶ City (1)
Index Entry
City:
"It is the essentially mobile nature of man that makes the modern city an anachronism because it is a stable phenomenon trying to adapt itself to the mobile needs of men…
"The first towns or cities grew up as interference patterns of one path of communication with another.
“A city is, in essence, nothing but a great service establishment created to serve the needs of the transient. As such the city has basically nothing to do with the production of food or goods, but only to arrange for their transfer. Man deploys from the city for his physical life and to the city for his metaphysical life. The parts of the city such as the docks and the wharves and rail terminals are incidental to the main business of the city which is the transfer of information (credit is a perfect example). The wharves and the terminals are there because of the coincidence of the interference patterns of their transport and the physical mobility of man reinforced by the fact that man before the days of credit most often traveled with the goods that he manufactured and owned. Transshipment of goods took place physically in the city because”
