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"We rarely understand how integrally an ethical politics is wedded to a comprehensible civic scale, to the city itself, conceived as a thoroughly manageable and participatory union of citizens, richly articulated by tradition and by social, cultural, and political forms. We live so contemporaneously within the given state of affairs, the overbearing 'now' that eternalizes the status quo, that no society is more prey to the workings of mindless forces than our own. Bereft of a serious regard for history, indeed for the experiences of our own century, we find ourselves in the airless vacuum of an immutable 'present,' a time warp that precludes any sense of futurity and ability to reason innovatively." damn Bookchin (from Urbanization Without Cities)
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"Whether as a democracy or a republic, the Italian city rested to an astonishing extent on little neighborhood 'communes' that existed within the larger urban commune. [...] Irrespective of the kind of consulate it had, the city's neighborhoods acquired an autonomy of their own that is truly spectacular by any standards of civic governance. [...] Oaths were sworn everywhere in the tradition of the conjuratio but so localist in their commitments that we can only describe a commune as a loose confederation of neighborhood communes, indeed, a confederation of neighborhoods within the commune."
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