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More on Definitions
The geography of the village, whether urban or rural, is often considered sacred." Home is considered a sacred place, a venerated place, a dedicated place. In the book, Manchild in the Promised Land, Claude Brown tells of his attachment of the streets when he says, "I always thought of Harlem as home, but I never thought of Harlem as being in the house. To me, home was the streets."
"Cities are civilization; the word "civilization" - related to the Latin civilitas, civis, and civitas - refers to the culture of cities, places where a heterogeneous mixture of people are concentrated in clusters of meaningful size to exchange goods, services, and ideas. Cities are not simplistic homogeneous...
Communities with single-minded purposes; those are military camps or company towns, not urban communities...
Cities are places where people both compete and cooperate with one another, but they are not merely profit- making corporate entities. And regardless of the differences among their citizens, cities always define their community, as against the outside world; a settlement with internal defense walls cannot be called a true community."(Lozano, 132-134)
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