Quotes by Mumford, Lewis

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit s >>

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about th >>

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of >>

Quotations about Cities and City Life

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day >>

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life >>

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of >>

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. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis