Two dominant types of modern city seem to be emerging. ..... But no form of technology is ever going to get rid of the value of face-to-face contacts in government, education or business, or of the tendency of people of a certain kind to gather where the options are richest; and as long as this is the case cities of some form will continue.
――大阪外国語大学 前期日程(2月25日実施)――2003年