Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. - Mark Kingwell

It is only through a devoted attention to the details of objects and faces in the modern urban scene, he argues, that the commodity fetish of capitalism can be effectively dispelled.

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.