10.4 Cities Have an Inside Too
A city has moods, memories encoded in architecture, and responses not reducible to its inhabitants, a society of occasions organized into patterns with their own stability, their own characteristic responses, and something that might be called a perspective.
The society of events that constitutes an experiencing entity need not be biological.
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A city is a society of occasions, millions of human events, each taking in a context, making decisions, completing into outputs that become the inheritance of other events, organized into patterns with their own stability, their own characteristic responses, their own something that might be called a perspective. Cities have moods.
