I’m a pessimist about probabilities, I’m an optimist about possibilities.
~ Lewis Mumford

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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
~ Lewis Mumford

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One of the marks of maturity is the need for solitude: a city should not merely draw men together in many varied activities, but should permit each person to find, near at hand, moments of seclusion and peace.
~ Lewis Mumford

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Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy [but] the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded … on the principle of conspicuous waste.
~ Lewis Mumford

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It is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us: the cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
~ Lewis Mumford

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