The answer to the question “what is a person?” are not only sublime philosophical reasoning, but also other cultural achievements. The book brought to the attention of readers, based on rich historical material, reveals a wide panorama of various places of formation of humanity in culture. Particular attention is paid to the evolution of the daily life of people living in the city space. The urban environment, including architecture and building interiors, disciplinary and moral institutions, communication systems and other increasingly complex networks of interdependencies, represents not only a physical, but also a symbolic space that forms the corresponding “habitus” of a person. The conducted research allows us to draw an important theoretical and practical conclusion: civilization makes a leap forward where and when it is possible to combine the earthly and heavenly, spiritual and physical, moral and economic in the form of a structure of such an order where the values of the temple and the market are intertwined , rather than being mutually exclusive. This book is dedicated to the study of the formation of networks of such a civilizational order. In conditions of inflation of philosophical discourse, it will help to give a wide range of readers confidence that only well-thought-out and responsible decisions can direct the will of people towards freedom. For the widest range of readers.