Park, Robert, sociologist, quoted by David Harvey

The city is "man's most successful attempt to remake the world he lives in more after his heart's desire. But, if the city is the world which man created, it is the world in which he is henceforth condemned to live. Thus, indirectly, and without any clear sense of the nature of his task, in making the city man had remade himself"

Robert Park, On Social control and Collective Behaviour, Chicago 1967, p. 3.