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Updated: October 16, 2025
Not the city-building monarchs, but the nomadic chiefs who force themselves to the height of power with their horrible religious despotism your Mahdis. It is a wonder that they find so many followers, but they do." "Fanaticism, I suppose," said Frank. "Yes, that and the love of conquest, with its additions in the shape of plunder.
Castles are done with bricks and cardboard turrets and a portcullis of card, and drawbridge and moats; they are a mere special sort of city-building, done because we have a box of men in armor. We could reconstruct all sorts of historical periods if the toy soldier makers would provide us with people.
And this forms its main interest at the present time. We see in Pienza how the most active-minded and intelligent man of his epoch, the representative genius of Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century, commanding vast wealth and the Pontifical prestige, worked out his whim of city-building.
Earthquakes cannot destroy them; fire cannot burn them. San Francisco grew from the Yerba Buena hamlet in sixty years. In a new and untried field city-building then was something of an experiment; yet population grew to half a million, and wealth in proportion; and never was improvement so marked as just before the fire.
The farm-land which Barnum had purchased only a few years before was rapidly becoming a city. It was characteristic of Barnum to place himself in the forefront in this city-building movement, and in the double role of speculator and public benefactor.
It has, therefore, been to lay the broadest possible basis of evolutionary science, of geographic and historic fact, for what would otherwise be open to ridicule as a Utopian hope, that of Civics as Applied Social Art, that I have insisted at such length above upon Civics as Applied Social Science. This is the age of cities, and all the world is city-building.
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