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Humane City:
"designed for people to be put and stay there throughout their whole life. All of us are going to be very transient with a higher and higher frequency of transiency.
"In order then to have the really satisfactory-to-humans city, we’d have to solve many other problems, particularly assessing the methods by which human beings account their energy–account their wealth. I am convinced that humanity is incredibly wealthy today. That is, that it has the know-how to take care of all of humanity at the highest standard of living that anybody has ever known; but it is preoccupied with long, age-held misassumptions that there is no where nearly enough to go around, nowhere nearly enough resources to support all human life. It has to be you or me. World society is spending $200 billion a year for the last 20 years on the wastefulness of getting ready for war–just to destroy each other; and this increases the scarcity of effective life support.
“I think then, to bring about the ideal city for humans, you would have to bring about a gradual accommodation of what we are here for–or else I think we’re not going to stay on this planet very long anyway. That is, you would have to really”
