I like Eisenberg’s argument that cities are natural because they were and are developed out of human nature. And humans are natural beings, right? I especially appreciate the discussion of culture in the city. Eisenberg says “the city is the place where culture gets to work out its complexes.” I can understand that many people do not want to live in a city, but I, personally, cannot wait to live in a big city. There are many environmental and societal issues within cities—including more air pollution and racial and socio-economic segregation—but if there were any place for these issues to begin to resolve, it would be in a city. I also think it’s interesting that Eisenberg refers to the city as wilderness. I normally think of unmanaged nature as wilderness, but I suppose there is a larger process going on that makes it wilderness. This process would be the lack of control, or better yet, ability to control, what happens. Whether in the city or in nature, wilderness seems like a good thing because it allows things to happen naturally.
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