Lewis Mumford
Historian and critic of cities and technology (1895 to 1990) whose The City in History (1961) traced the city from its origins and argued it exists to turn power into culture.
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Their wordsThe chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
↗The City in History (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961)archive.org All 2 from this book
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Our reading
The city's final mission is to further people's conscious part in the cosmic and historic process
Their wordsThe final mission of the city is to further man's conscious participation in the cosmic and the historic process.
↗The City in History (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961)archive.org All 2 from this book