¶ City (3)
Index Entry
City:
"technological activity takes place in the main area of an institute of higher education, the next and most proper function of a city is as research laboratory and as university. I predict that the great urban centers of the world will deploy all of their physical activity to the suburbs or the countryside and will concentrate on fulfilling the intellectual needs of men. New York City within 25 years if not sooner, will become one big information center dealing in research, education, and information (credit). If there is manufacture it will be an anachronism. The only manufacture that should be left in New York City should be the manufacture of assemblages of information such as typewritten letters, which today in cost outnumber the physical manufactures of the cities by many tens of millions of dollars. Mayor Lindsay’s program to hold what industry they have and to attract more is a mistake of enormous proportions.
“… Already the transhipment function is beginning to take place outside the city. The city is effectively bypassed by the warehouses which used to be downtown and are all now in the suburbs or even beyond. Million-dollar-an-acre real estate”
