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Closing Gesture
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The Ideal City is made up of the stuff of dreams. All its residents can dream of a city which they can create in their own image of happiness, and live in everyday. In the Ideal City, the worth of human life is not measured by how much an individual being can consume. In the Ideal City, the residents are aware that they do not merely consume, but they also can and do create. The Ideal City comprises of persons and collectivities who share an inalienable humanity, and not just of people marked as ‘islands’ by their ‘individuality’. In the Ideal City, differences do not need insularity and each dweller ...
Title: Closing Gesture
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The Ideal City is made up of the stuff of dreams.
All its residents can dream of a city which they can create in their own image of happiness, and live in everyday.
In the Ideal City, the worth of human life is not measured by how much an individual being can consume.
In the Ideal City, the residents are aware that they do not merely consume, but they also can and do create.
The Ideal City comprises of persons and collectivities who share an inalienable humanity, and not just of people marked as ‘islands’ by their ‘individuality’.
In the Ideal City, differences do not need insularity and each dweller .
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