Cities are distillate of human civilization in living Spaces.

城市是人类文明在生活空间上的结晶。

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Preoccupations that are inherently electrical in nature or retain one in the large cities of your human civilization are not suited to ascension.

内在本性为电性、或将你留在你们人类文明的大城市里的职业是不适合提升的。

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Take traffic in modern cities for instance, it's one side effect of civilization.

以现代城市的交通为例，这是文明的一个副作用。

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Then it looks like there came a moment where there was a final blow, where whatever was attempting to overthrow these cities and this civilization succeeded, but it was not the same in every place.

接着,看起来最后一击的时刻来临了,颠覆这些城市和这个文明的企图,最终还是成功了,这在各地情况都不尽相同

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Because not only is it one of the most interesting and vibrant cities in the world, it is one of the most important cities in Western Civilization.

BBC: This is Istanbul week

The Maya civilization collapsed in most of its southern lowlands, leaving only abandoned pyramids in silent cities.

CNN: The Maya collapsed - could we?