“The 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.”

Lewis Mumford

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About Lewis Mumford

Historian American

Lewis Mumford was a distinguished American historian, sociologist, and philosopher of technology, renowned for his scholarly work on cities and urban architecture. He was a prominent critic of modern technology and what...

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