Scripture and history both strongly indicate that the active stewardship and closeness to soil, plants and animals is inherently instructive and at least offering a humility against the hubris of the modern. Modern cities most assuredly beget a different sort of citizen. Thomas Jefferson held big cities good only for breeding revolution. The city-dweller is all but completely dependent upon various governments and corporation to meet his most basic needs, while he is estranged from Creation. This condition easily distorts his perspective or world-view .
Life becomes fragmented.
Trapped in artificial urban centers, Modernists forget that their very lives depend upon Stewardship of Creation. Modernists easily forget their limitations within Creation, and so their vision and projects become ambitiously grand in scale. This calls for bigness and power of money interests and government power. Value is reduced to price and everything is for sale. Modernism has lost its connectedness and wholeness.