November 9, 2017
A Latecomer Imagines the City
‘The history of cities is one of continual transformation: of mud into brick; of settlements into mounds; of quarrelling tribes into polities; of surpluses into fortifications; of servants into craftworkers; of weavers into industrialists; of merchants into brokers; of vacancy into invention. These transformations of collective capacity grow within the redundant spaces of today’s city. They start from what individual cities are, not from the elusive pursuit of what they are not.’