¶ Community (1)
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Now, when we begin to think about community and the very words, ‘Habitable City,’ we are finding megalopolis is occurring, so the city is almost getting to be ‘city’ everywhere around the world. There is a world city. There is a ‘city’ as man goes into various places, and many of those continuous cities are coming together as megalopolis, so the man comes into the city for his information, then he deploys from the city. We find then as the physical went out, the manufacturing the mining, the archaeology, he deploys also then for his skiing, the water skiing, the mountain skiing. The physical then, is done remotely, and the metaphysical is centralized. And he oscillates between the two. He doesn’t stay put. No citizen stays put anywhere. And we have a great deal of talk about community and how wonderful community used to be, and that we are now lacking it. This is not so, but the pattern is different. Of necessity, different. I spent a good deal of my life on an island remote in Penobscot Bay in Maine. The nearest human beings were two miles away. . . You knew the characteristics of your neighbors, though you didn’t see them directly-- you would see their boat, you didn’t see their body. . . The thoughtfulness of this kind of neighbor,
¶ Citations
- RBF Address, THE HABITABLE CITY, 14 Oct. '69
