Cities
The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000
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Tony Schwartz revisits a 1968 conversation with the media theorist Marshall McLuhan, who discusses the development and future of cities, and how innovations in transportation and electronic communication mark the arrival of a "global village" and the demise of the urban environment. As McLuhan says, "There's no need for cities anymore. Under these conditions of travel and communication, the very existence of a congested metropolitan area is meaningless!"
WNYC archives id: 152017
