SOSC 1731 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Stillbirth

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1731
• Professor: Lewis Code

Document Summary

Through its monuments, written records, and orderly habits of association, the city enlarged the scope of all human activities, extending them backwards and forwards in time . By means of its storage facilities, the city became capable of transmitting a complex culture from generation to generation . The recovery of the essential activities and values that first were incorporated in the ancient cities is a primary condition for the further development of the city in our time . Ours is an age in which the increasingly automatic processes of production and urban expansion have displaced the human goals they are supposed to serve . The oppressive conditions that limited the development of the city throughout history have begun to disappear . The emancipation from manual labour has brought about a new kind of enslavement: abject dependence upon the machine pg 573. Should the forces of life rally together, we shall stand on the verge of a new urban implosion .