The city and soul analogy could be seen then as an attempt to understand how societies reproduce themselves, and how they shape citizens who again in turn shape the societies in which they inhabit.

城市与灵魂的比拟,可以视为是尝试了解,社会如何自我复制，及形塑公民,后者相对地,也在形塑他们所居住的社会。

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