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  • In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction.

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    Mean   Space   Progress  
    Lewis Mumford (1974). “The Pentagon of Power”, Harcourt

  • 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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    Art   Creativity   Cities  
    "The City in History". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 18, 1961.

  • Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

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Lewis Mumford

  • Born: October 19, 1895
  • Died: January 26, 1990
  • Occupation: Historian
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