The Metropolis Has Always Been

Nothing More Can Be Attempted Than To Establish The Beginning And The Direction Of An Infinitely Long Road. The Pretension Of Any Systematic And Definitive Completeness Would Be, At Least, A Self-illusion. Perfection Can Here Be Obtained By The Individual Student Only In The Subjective Sense That He Communicates Everything He Has Been Able To See.

Cities Are, First Of All, Seats Of The Highest Economic Division Of Labor.

Secrecy Involves A Tension Which, At The Moment Of Revelation, Finds Its Release.

For The Division Of Labor Demands From The Individual An Ever More One-sided Accomplishment, And The Greatest Advance In A One-sided Pursuit Only Too Frequently Means Dearth To The Personality Of The Individual.

Man's Nature, Originally Good And Common To All, Should Develop Unhampered.