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Lewis Mumford was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities… more

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by Lewis Mumford

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However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
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Michael Schneider @michaelschneider.com · Sep 5
I left my house in LA yesterday, biked to @laxairport.bsky.social, folded up my @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social, put it in the overhead bin, and biked to my hotel on the other end in Washington DC.

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I left my house in LA yesterday, biked to @laxairport.bsky.social, folded up my @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social, put it in the overhead bin, and biked to my hotel on the other end in Washington DC.

🎥 by Caro Vilain
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by Lewis Mumford

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My dear Bradley—indeed, I recall the phantasm from which you wept upon waking. I was descending once more to the terrestrial plane. Kindly forgive the perturbation as my return was in earnest, not spectral. I regret the sorrow my passage stirred in your slumbering soul.
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Brad Wilson @farmjustice.bsky.social · Aug 3
@lewismumford.bsky.social I once had a dream in which I met Lewis Mumford coming down he stairs, and woke up in tears. And look! Here he is, still down the stairs!
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@lewismumford.bsky.social I once had a dream in which I met Lewis Mumford coming down he stairs, and woke up in tears. And look! Here he is, still down the stairs!

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Dismantling the legal and regulatory frameworks that hollowed out cities, transferred wealth to the suburbs, and then made it financially prohibitive to return is one of the great projects of urbanism.
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Ai is a tool for digital State capture nothing else. AI is being forced into all of our lives because it is not a feature to help you learn it is a tool to control you and knowledge while also neutering your ability to know anything.

It’s knowledge killing technology
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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · Apr 22
"Federal agencies would be instructed to take steps to train students in using AI...The agencies would also be asked to partner with the private sector...All educators should undergo professional development to integrate AI into all subject areas, the draft order says."
Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools
A policy under consideration by the White House and seen by The Post instructs federal agencies on how to incorporate artificial intelligence into classrooms.
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Like other urban expressways, Rochester’s depressed Inner Loop devastated and divided communities.

But in 2014 Rochester closed the Inner Loop’s eastern side and filled the moat. Rochesterians didn’t cap or cover their expressway like a sore. They buried it like a corpse. It’s gone.
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the cost of doing business.
graphics of cars with red text WE'VE MADE IT SO THAT AUTOMOBILES CAN GO LEVERYWHERE AT THE EXPENSE, OF CHILDREN GOING
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4 May is the Jane Jacobs's birthday.
I say the Jane Jacobs day.
Let us remember her on this special day, reflect on her remarkable legacy and continue to carry her torch. Let us work to create more sustainable, liveable and just cities
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Jane, for inspiring us all with your passion and courage
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Versions of this have circulated on other sites in the past. Share YOUR answers.

City I like:
City I love:
City I think is overrated:
City I think is underrated:
City I feel most myself in:
City I still need to visit:
City I dream of living in:
Most inspiring city today:
Favorite city of all time:
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by Lewis Mumford

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like: Pittsburgh
love: Manhattan
overrated: Washington, D.C.
underrated: Manhattan
I feel most myself in: Manhattan
I still need to visit: Lübeck
I dream of living in: Manhattan
Most inspiring city today: Venice
Favorite city of all time: Manhattan
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Mar 22
Versions of this have circulated on other sites in the past. Share YOUR answers.

City I like:
City I love:
City I think is overrated:
City I think is underrated:
City I feel most myself in:
City I still need to visit:
City I dream of living in:
Most inspiring city today:
Favorite city of all time:

by Lewis Mumford

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specialized human aptitudes, specialized instruments, give rise to sonorous results which, neither in volume nor in quality, could be achieved by any single piece.
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by Lewis Mumford

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Through its complex orchestration of time and space, no less than through the social division of labor, life in the city takes on the character of a symphony:
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by Lewis Mumford

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…increases with civilization: “Nature” as a system of interests and activities is one of the chief creations of the civilized man.

by Lewis Mumford

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The influence of the land is sometimes looked upon as significant only in primitive conditions of life. With the coming of “civilization,” that is to say, trade and manufacture and organized cities, the land is supposed to diminish in importance. As a matter of fact, the importance of the land…
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by Lewis Mumford

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…to present a picture, dramatic but not distorted, of the results of displacing large neighborhood populations to facilitate large-scale rebuilding.
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by Lewis Mumford

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A few years ago, Mrs. Jacobs stepped into prominence at a planners’ conference at Harvard. Into the foggy atmosphere of professional jargon that usually envelops such meetings, she blew like a fresh, offshore breeze…
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Pr Carlos Moreno - IAE Paris1 Sorbonne University @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social · May 4
4 May is the Jane Jacobs's birthday.
I say the Jane Jacobs day.
Let us remember her on this special day, reflect on her remarkable legacy and continue to carry her torch. Let us work to create more sustainable, liveable and just cities
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Jane, for inspiring us all with your passion and courage
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by Lewis Mumford

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…and apparently automatic processes that promise power or profit to those who promote them.
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by Lewis Mumford

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The fact is that twentieth-century planning still lacks a fresh multidimensional image of the city, partly because we have not discussed and sorted out the true values, functions, and purposes of modern culture from many pseudo-values...
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · Apr 24
the cost of doing business.
graphics of cars with red text WE'VE MADE IT SO THAT AUTOMOBILES CAN GO LEVERYWHERE AT THE EXPENSE, OF CHILDREN GOING
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by Lewis Mumford

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…are more important than any benefits to be derived from the constant use of the automobile. To accomplish this improvement, we must devise a fundamental change in the city’s whole pattern.

by Lewis Mumford

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Instead of maximizing facilities for motorcars, we should maximize the advantage of urban life. Parks, playgrounds, and schools, theaters, universities, and concert halls, to say nothing of a quiet night’s sleep and a sunny outlook when one wakes up…
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Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social · Apr 23
Like other urban expressways, Rochester’s depressed Inner Loop devastated and divided communities.

But in 2014 Rochester closed the Inner Loop’s eastern side and filled the moat. Rochesterians didn’t cap or cover their expressway like a sore. They buried it like a corpse. It’s gone.
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by Lewis Mumford

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If it is only now that we belatedly recognize this distinctive feature, it is perhaps because there are widespread indications in contemporary art and politics and technics that man may be on the point of losing it—becoming not a lower animal, but a shapeless amoeboid nonentity.

by Lewis Mumford

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Every manifestation of human culture, from ritual and speech to costume and social organization, is directed ultimately to the remodeling of the human organism and the expression of the human personality.
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · Apr 22
Ai is a tool for digital State capture nothing else. AI is being forced into all of our lives because it is not a feature to help you learn it is a tool to control you and knowledge while also neutering your ability to know anything.

It’s knowledge killing technology
rcmeg.bsky.social
Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · Apr 22
"Federal agencies would be instructed to take steps to train students in using AI...The agencies would also be asked to partner with the private sector...All educators should undergo professional development to integrate AI into all subject areas, the draft order says."
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by Lewis Mumford

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But if the pedestrian is to come back, it is necessary, for both his safety and his health, to insulate his promenades from the traffic thoroughfare…to keep motor cars from entering areas where they do not belong and to provide for their swift movement through areas where they do belong….

by Lewis Mumford

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The replanning of New York so that the pedestrian may again have a real place in the urban economy would have seemed fantastic only a generation ago.
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Governor Kathy Hochul @governor.ny.gov · Apr 21
The cameras are staying on.
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The cameras are staying on.
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by Lewis Mumford

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The time has come to reconsider the whole process of urban design. We must ask ourselves what changes are necessary if the city is again to become architecturally expressive and economically workable without our having to sacrifice its proper life to the mechanical means for keeping that life going.
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · Apr 19
Dismantling the legal and regulatory frameworks that hollowed out cities, transferred wealth to the suburbs, and then made it financially prohibitive to return is one of the great projects of urbanism.

by Lewis Mumford

lewismumford.bsky.social
…”Babylonish brick-kiln” of New York. Not merely was I a city boy but a New Yorker, indeed a son of Manhattan, who looked upon specimens from all other cities as provincial—especially Brooklynites.

by Lewis Mumford

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I was a child of the city, and for the first thirty years of my life I knew the country only as a visitor, though the occasional summers I spent on a Vermont farm before 1910 had first and last an influence on me that offset my long incarceration in what Melville called the…
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