"One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city"
"One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory."
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Source: Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman (1982). “Architettura Della Città”, p.130, MIT Press
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