Augustine on the City

In yesterday's post one of my ideas for writing was on the Reformers' view(s) of the city.  A nice bit of timing today as I came across this from Augustine in The City of God:

If, then, home, the natural refuge from the ills of life, is itself not safe, what shall we say of the city, which, as it is larger, is so much the more filled with lawsuits civil and criminal, and is never free from the fear, if sometimes the actual outbreak, of disturbing and bloody insurrections and civil wars? (19.5)

Augustine predated the Reformers by over a millennium, but since they counted him one of their own I wonder if they shared such sentiments.