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...city cannot be both great and regimented. Blessed with culture, history and size, Moscow, Shanghai and Peking ought to be great cities, but they are not. They all lack the most important element: spontaneity of free human exchange. Without that, a city is as sterile as Aristophanes' Nephelococcygia, which was to be suspended between heaven and earth-and ruled by the birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT MAKES A CITY GREAT? | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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