... in contemporary city life (and in human life as such - since, as Mumford predicted, we have moved in our joint history from a city that was the world to the world that is a city) . The secession ... returns to the city centre’ and the ‘out-of- 26 B.J.Widick, Detroit: City of Race and Class Violence, Wayne State UP 1989, p.210. 27 town day-trippers’ are drawn back to the inner city in hope ... moats, turrets and embrasures of the city walls; only rather that defending the city and all its dwellers against the enemy outside, they are built to set the city residents apart and, having...