Sublime

cities should be designed for people,

What are the projects that will replace famine, plague and war at the top of the human agenda in the twenty-first

“Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?”

“all civilizations eventually experience violent restructuring of material and ideological realities such as destruction or re-creation.”

In the aftermath of any terrorist act, our instinct is to try to make sense of the brutality by assigning a person’s or a group’s violent radicalization to one or two probable causes: religious extremism and economic disparity, for example.

Overspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.

many past societies didn’t have “disaster relief” mechanisms to import food surpluses from other areas