Receptacle of Civilization

• From its origin onward, the city may be described as a structure specially equipped to store and transmit the goods of civilization Sufficiently condensed to afford the maximum amount of facilities in a minimum space, but also capable of structural enlargement to enable it to find a place for the changing needs and the more complex forms of a growing society and its cumulative social heritage.

The earliest and most characteristic achievements of the city were

The invention of such forms as

• the written record
  
• the library
  
• the archive
  
• the school
  
• the university