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When people like Genghis Khan tried to speed up the rhythm and conquer and organize a continent in a few generations, they did not create a synthesis, they only courted disasters.

— Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis

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The realistic view of the City of the Future accepts that it will be a global city.

The real city is the whole territory within which people move every day.

At present the machines are in control and no human values are respected.

We should never forget that values of the past are first overlooked when a change is necessary, but later they are understood and re-established.

When we build a city we must answer the most basic question as for any type of project: who is the master whom we have to serve?

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