Sublime

using cities as performance spaces or as hiding places;

Section 5.3 makes sense of these patterns by linking the rise of connectivity in socioeconomic networks characteristic of cities (chapter 3) to specialization, information, and productivity.

has been developing a theory for how and why our hunter-gatherer ancestors made the crucial transition to sedentary communities that eventually led to city formation.

Embracing time means that we must follow individuals as they develop their trajectories in space-time in the city.

Do everything possible to enrich the cultures and subcultures of the city, by breaking the city, as far as possible, into a vast mosaic of small and different subcultures, each with its own spatial territory, and each with the power to create its own distinct life style. Make sure that the subcultures are small enough, so that each person has acces

We have seen how paying the high costs of increasing connectivity in urban environments only makes sense in light of the productivity gains that emerge from these deep divisions and articulations of knowledge and action.

rooted in group Supremacy.

neighborhoods are ideal environments that make community organization possible and natural and that consequently can create practical Politics for human sustainable development.