¶ Humane City (3)
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Humane City:
"accommodate this extraordinary intellectual and mental capability of humans. Inasmuch as we’re all here for problem-solving with those minds, it will not eliminate problems but the local problems of the Universe or something other than the questions of just how we might get on. Such a city would get completely away from the idea of inventing jobs just so people will have life-support buying capability. We will not waste those extraordinary amounts of gasoline just getting to work and away from work. We will not waste a great deal of the resources of the Earth for invented jobs, for invented ways of getting life support distributed.
“So I’ll simply say… My statement is that the ideal city can be designed, we know how to do it technically. Whether we realize this… it will be a question of how rapidly humanity gets over its age-old preoccupations and arrives at a proper way of accounting their wealth and know-how, for that is what real wealth is, accrediting the enormous energies we have in a way that can take care of everybody, in a way that we already know how to do. I think that would be the humane city with its high potential of real success for all.”
¶ Citations
- RBF at "National Town Meeting of the Air, Wash.,DC; 10 Sep’75
