| A city is not an area lined with cement and | | | | enjoys, as a human being conducts and |
| crossed by cars racing around and buried by the | | | | constructs there everyday as a rational, emotional |
| thick smoke from the chimneys and also the | | | | and intelligent person. |
| deafening noise of car horns. Nor is it an open | | | | The city is the place to open our eyes each |
| field in which each and everyone is rushing from | | | | morning to receive the light of day and to absorb |
| one place to another as if they had no fixed | | | | the air that our bodies are alive with. We have to |
| destination. | | | | face the struggle of every day with renewed |
| A city is much more than the rush of those who | | | | strength obtained in the folds of memory or in a |
| are running around, which is much more than | | | | far corner of the future which has been |
| concrete, iron and asphalt structures of the cities | | | | projected in our dreams. |
| that have grown in a disordered manner, in which | | | | The city is the place where we were born by |
| the life of many generations of men and women | | | | God's will or where we face the intense days of |
| was spent between the time and anxiety of the | | | | daily living by choice or by force of circumstances. |
| reduction of spaces. | | | | Certainly it is not just a place where we are born |
| The city is more than one site, a place, a lot of | | | | but the scenario in which it projects and fulfills the |
| land and space. The city is people laughing and | | | | task of living and sharing. In a sense a city is one |
| crying at the pace imposed by the events of | | | | in which at any given time, we are planting our |
| their time and lifestyle, it is the encounter of the | | | | feet and our eyes are fixed. It is the geographical |
| innocent smiles of children with a whisper of wind | | | | area in which the heart beats and blood flows in |
| in the treetops whose shadow is projected | | | | your life permanently. |
| generously on the sidewalk where friends share | | | | The city is a platform where people pass through |
| their conversation or in the park in which the | | | | here and there, a street where walkers move |
| lovers walk hand in hand and plan a future filled | | | | driven by their commitment, a road crossed by |
| with love and understanding. | | | | bridges of cordiality, a set of neighborhoods that |
| It is the point of time and space in which the | | | | customs born, modifying and is shown in a |
| matching of people's souls takes place and their | | | | perennial process of construction and |
| desires to build a new and better world and their | | | | achievements. |
| need to live together with other human beings | | | | A city, in other words, is life. It transmits it to |
| beside them is of relevance. The city suffers and | | | | people who are sheltered in its protective shadow. |