Citat af Robert Ezra Park

Jeg har fået dette citat af Robert Ezra Park, som jeg skal inddrage i min opgave:
“The city is a state of mind, a body of customs and traditions, and of organized attitudes and sentiments that inhere in this tradition. The city is not, in other words, merely a physical mechanism and an artificial construction. It is involved in the vital processes of the people who compose it, it is a product of nature and particularly of human nature”
I min opgave skriver jeg om storbyen og identitetskonflikter bl.a. på baggrund af Paul Austers roman: City of Glass.
Er der nogen der kender dette citat, eller vil hjælpe med at forklare det?
På forhånd tak.