Circa 2000: A Spectrum bicentennial report on cities of the future

Not a single human achievement was conceived or realized in the bracing atmosphere of steppes, forests or mountain tops. Everything was conceived and realized in the crowded, stinking little cities of Jerusalem, Athens, Florence, Shakespere's London, Rembrandt's Amsterdam. The villages, the suburbs, are for the dropouts ... we will decay, we will decline if we can't make our cities viable. That's where America's destiny will be decided - in the cities.