"Just as a human being does not end with the limits of his/her physical body or the personal belongings with which he or she is immediately confronted, but rather, with the totality of meaningful effects (Wirkungen) which emanate from him/her temporally and spatially, in that way a city exists only in the totality of its effects (Wirkungen), which transcend their immediate sphere (Unmittelbarkeit). This is the real context in which its being (Sein) is expressed."
— Georg Simmel, 1903
