Smith advocates a return to "village values", with the city being made up of many smaller residential areas.
Yet in Beijing migrants had greater "neighbouring intensity" – in other words, they're better at connecting with their community – suggesting that migrants may bring much-needed village values to the lonely urban jungle.
What had shaped them was not the mass immigration of 1880-1910, whadh had severed my family from the Old Country constraints of a ghetto existence and the surveillance of religious orthodoxy and the threat of anti-Semitic violence, but the overtaking of the farm and the farmer's indigenous village values by the pervasive business culture and its profit-oriented pursuits.
"Those same village values that we had years ago, I felt that.
At that point local militias will likely decide on their own to provide security for the infrastructure that their villages value; outside intelligence need not choose favorites.
There is almost no paper trash in the villages; people value paper.
Mandrik, the strange brother, the mystic, who is the only Mandragoran to have traveled and who keeps most of what he knows secret, sees clearly that wisdom will be required if the village's values are to last -- but at the same time Ruth herself, the harbinger, draws Mandrik to her.
This explains why people in remote villages still value forests as an income-generating landscape component (Fig. 7).
On average, surveyed village communities valued both forests and farmlands for their food [collection of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), animal trapping] and direct income generation potential, although the importance given to farmlands for these major functions was more pronounced.
Both cystic echinococcosis (CE) (Echinococcus granulosus infection) and alveolar echinococcosis (AE) (E. multilocularis) were co-endemic in this area at the highest village prevalence values recorded anywhere in the world: 12.9% were infected with one or the other form (6.8% CE and 6.2% AE).
He's thinking about all villages have values, all towns have values, not just small towns have values.
