In old parlance, the mayor is the “mayor of the city”. You cannot plunder the resources of the city and hold the country to account for the use of its resources.
Every human social relationship is also linked to spatial reality. The saying "geography is destiny" essentially refers to the capacity of the land, the period and the cultural heritage to have an impact. Many thinkers from Montesquieu to Ibn Khaldun have made important concrete claims in this regard. The debate on which governments will be more successful in harsh climates provides clues in terms of authoritarianism and democracy preferences.
Likewise, discussions on social systems and political governance models in hot climates have been an important topic in political science for years. The necessity for human beings to live together, to exist in a community and to develop themselves brings the necessity of living together. Nomadism and migration therefore have a civilization-building role.
On the one hand, it is claimed that nomadism makes it difficult to build a settled civilization; on the other hand, the contact of different cultures gives rise to new syntheses, new civilization claims.
The term "city manager" refers to the management of the city by the most trustworthy person. In other words, the protection and development of what is in the city, the texture of the city, the achievements of the city, expresses the indispensable bond between the administration and the city.
Moral weaknesses or crimes such as plunder, pillage, ill-gotten gains and extortion eat away at the social fabric and lead cities to destruction. Even natural disasters, which are cited as examples of destruction, are essentially associated with the moral weaknesses of human beings that pave the way for them.
The approach that rotten buildings kill, not earthquakes, and the fact that buildings erected in the wrong places and without proper ground surveys have caused the deaths of thousands of people like a massacre is the result of either land theft or stealing iron and concrete. Any approach that fights with nature, usurps it unlimitedly, and neglects the measures that should be taken in terms of security for the sake of more profit, makes humanity pay a heavy price.
The decay and destruction of societies and their extinction are reminded in religious texts as lessons to be learned.
What is emphasized here is not only individual moral weaknesses but also the inevitable result of social corruption and decay. The claim for a new civilization, a new paradigm for a new social system, must necessarily give a special meaning to the city, to the place where one lives, and strengthen the living environment with its unique world of values.
An alternative social politics can only be achieved through a model municipal administration.