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Urbanity — as a way of life and the feeling of being alive — was and is a distinguishing feature of our cities. Unbridled. Intellectual. Distanced. Immediate. Contradictory. Critical. Almost all the great developments of humankind were born and developed in the nodal networks of human urban life. Urbanity not only as the utopia of a better life, but also as its instantiation.
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Pearson, C. (2007). What Cities Ought to Know about Urbanity. In: Conceptions of the Desirable. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-71260-3_38
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