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Humane City:
"The humane city–what it might be–is a very challenging matter. Number one: we have to realize, in trying to answer that properly, that human beings are probably not on our little planet just to be amused, or to be pleased or displeased. We probably have a very important and unique function in Universe. What is unique about humans in contradistinction to any other phenomenon we know is their minds.
"So I would say that a humane city would have to give the human beings the time and the ease with which really to use their minds and not just their muscles. I don’t think you could possibly design a humane city if you designed it on the basis of how are you going to make money out of real estate. You would quite clearly have to try to accommodate human beings on our planet who are all becoming very rapidly world-interested world citizens; and they are going to continually deploy for various experiences around the world; and they are going to converge from time to time–converging as we are here in this city.
“So they are not going to have a city ever again where it is”
