Lewis Mumford
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Mumford was a historian, philosopher of technology and literary critic best known for his studies of cities and architecture.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 19 Oct 1895, Flushing, Queens, New York (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 26 Jan 1990, at his home in Amenia, New York, aged 94 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: City College of New York and The New School; did not finish a degree after tuberculosis (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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4 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The city's chief function is to convert power into form and energy into culture (opens korrents.com)
“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.”
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The city's final mission is to further people's conscious part in the cosmic and historic process (opens korrents.com)
“The final mission of the city is to further man's conscious participation in the cosmic and the historic process.”
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The city of the dead came before the city of the living (opens korrents.com)
“The city of the dead antedates the city of the living.”
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The city's chief function is to convert power into form and energy into culture (opens korrents.com)