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The future of humanity is urban.

It might seem a bad move for a magazine named after a farm tool to bring out an issue on cities. Especially if that magazine is published by an Anabaptist community that originated in a back-to-the-land movement and still has the whiff of hayfield and woodlot to it. Why not stick to what you're good at? Why jump lanes?

Because the future of humanity, pretty clearly, is urban. Urbanization is arguably the biggest change of habitat our species has ever undergone. For anyone who cares about the common good of humanity, then, cities need to matter.

The modern city is an electrifying concentration of creativity, energy, and cultural dynamism. It's also still the cauldron of unholy loves that Saint Augustine discovered in Carthage one and a half millennia ago. It's the place where the cruelties of mammon, the hubris of power, and the perversions of lust manifest themselves most crassly. But cities have also given birt

Plough Quarterly No. 23 In Search of a City

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    A Paperback / softback by Jenny McCartney, Adriano Cirino, Clare Coffey

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      Publisher: Plough Publishing House
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/12/2019
      ISBN13: 9780874863390, 978-0874863390
      ISBN10: 874863392

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The future of humanity is urban.

      It might seem a bad move       for a magazine named after a farm tool to bring out an issue on cities. Especially if that magazine is published by an Anabaptist community that originated in a back-to-the-land movement and still has the whiff of hayfield and woodlot to it. Why not stick to what you're good at? Why jump lanes?

      Because the future of humanity, pretty clearly, is urban. Urbanization is arguably the biggest change of habitat our species has ever undergone. For anyone who cares about the common good of humanity, then, cities need to matter.

      The modern city is an electrifying concentration of creativity, energy, and cultural dynamism. It's also still the cauldron of unholy loves that Saint Augustine discovered in Carthage one and a half millennia ago. It's the place where the cruelties of mammon, the hubris of power, and the perversions of lust manifest themselves most crassly. But cities have also given birt

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