“If someone were to ask me now for directions in the neighborhoods where I lived the first twenty-five years of my life I could only say, with a helpless smile, ‘I am a stranger here myself.’” –Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford
Belated April 2014 Motto
“A biologist who turned later in life to city planning [Patrick] Geddes had begun a series of civic surveys and town revitalization projects in Edinburgh in the 1890s, publishing his results in a series of books and reports that fired young [Lewis] Mumford’s interest in the city. Mumford did not set out to be a […]