Our True Selves are City Selves

"We need to turn to our streets and our houses, our trams and our nightclubs, our planning offices and our shopping centers, our factories and our alleyways, our offices and bars and pubs if we are to see ourselves clearly, celebrate our true identities proudly, and cure our many faults effectively. We cannot walk away from these things, and 'escape to the country'. We must learn to love our true selves. We must learn to love our cities."

-- Leif Jerram, in Streetlife: The Untold History of Europe's Twentieth Century