Sublime

cities are concentrations not just of people but of social interactions.

“Many of the queries that inspire the most persistent searches for answers and the greatest distress when answers are not forthcoming are of no manifest practical value or urgency.”

we can also understand them as small-scale, pervasive, daily, and constant performance of power.

agent may prefer to maximize a short-term goal,

Sociologists measure power and influence in terms of the structural positions of agents (nodes) in complex networks.

This means that when faced with a real need to adapt our behaviors to a new reality, we as a society are unable to do so. Decision-making power and the control of resources rests with a narrow class of technocrats occupying BAU spaces, characterized by habitus.

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A fundamental process at work in all urban environments is a deep division of labor and knowledge among people and organizations.

postindustrial transitions have been particularly painful and, arguably, waste so much human potential and infrastructure.