A biological prospect for the human population based on the views of Aristotle and Santayana in the context of the urban ecology discipline

Cities are large workplaces where people gather and share the cumulative value they produce. Since humans are biological organisms, it is the human animal himself who creates the city. Urban areas are the concrete products of human populations, and they are multifaceted: From microbiomes to technological developments, from climatic changes to economic and social activities, the concept of the city encompasses many elements. An understanding of the human population in the cities is dependent on the concept of the self. Although cities exist as the collective product of the members of human populations, it is the perceptions of the individuals in the population towards the environment, themselves, and each other that make the city a whole unit. These perceptions have evolved over an evolutionary process and can be unified under the concept of self. In this article, I would like to propose several approaches that can be useful in overcoming these limitations, and therefore, I have attempted to construct a holistic view of modern urbanization using Aristotle's and George Santayana's views on life and the self.