| 1 | It was a city-state. | |
| 2 | The origin of city-states is disputable. | |
| 3 | He presents an extreme vision of the polis. | |
| 4 | Or, as John Perry Barlow of the Electronic Frontier Foundation predicted last year: "We're going back to the city-state. | |
| 5 | The tradition of these decentralized city-states that were the heart of the Renaissance. |