Cities are a mixed bag, we've lived in one most of our lives and still appreciate their complexity and openness. Many well to do left long ago to secluded or gated suburbs. Class is a forgotten topic for some. Curiously even in health, cities are more hopeful and helpful than rural areas where the poor have little supporting structure. Look only at opioid deaths. Farming died under corporate takeover. And slaves and sharecroppers are no more. Sorry but cities have good and bad and grace and hope and will be around for a long long time.
A great read while a bit off topic:
White Trash
"A city — or a state — is a response to human needs. No human being is self-sufficient, and all of us have many wants...Since each person has many wants, many partners and purveyors will be required to furnish them.... Owing to this interchange of services, a multitude of persons will gather and dwell together in what we have come to call the city or the state....[So] let us construct a city beginning with its origins, keeping in mind that the origin of every real city is human necessity....[However], we are not all alike. There is a diversity of talents among men; consequently, one man is best suited to one particular occupation and another to another....We can conclude, then, that production in our city will be more abundant and the products more easily produced and of better quality if each does the work nature [and society] has equipped him to do, at the appropriate time, and is not required to spend time on other occupations." Plato
