Who is Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer. Mumford made signal contributions to social philosophy, American literary and cultural history and the history of technology. He was influenced by the work of Scottish theorist Sir Patrick Geddes and worked closely with his associate the British sociologist Victor Branford. Mumford was also a contemporary and friend of Frank Lloyd Wright, Clarence Stein, Frederic Osborn, Edmund N. Bacon, and Vannevar Bush.Life
Mumford was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1912. He studied at th...
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- Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
- A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
- Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
- A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
- Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
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Ohmyshambles: "though each new invention or discovery may respond to some general human need, or even awaken a fresh human potentiality, it immediately becomes part of an articulated totalitarian system that, on its own premises, has turned the machine into a god" lewis mumford, 1965Joyfuljaay: of the past few years and see that the world is at a historic threshold. . . . it will change forever the way men live.” in a similar vein, the american writer lewis mumford said: “civilization is going downhill. very definitely. . . . in the past when civilizations went downhill
Mtkelly62136: protected status seems so easy to challenge and overide, always, always, always. next a remote barren ground wildlife sanctuary? seems nothing, from animals to earth to the birds of the air ever matter if minerals might be there. see "techniques and civilization" lewis mumford
Davidzipper: these amsterdam parking spots (no guardrails!) remind me of lewis mumford'd description of what residents do if their car tumbles into a canal (from the 1950s).
Prisonplanet3: good read:
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