“The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art.”

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...