Frasi di Lewis Mumford

1/11

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

2/11

Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one.

3/11

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

4/11

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

5/11

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.

6/11

Trend is not destiny.

7/11

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

8/11

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

9/11

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

10/11

Il diritto di accedere a tutti gli edifici della città con un'automobile privata, in un'epoca in cui tutti possiedono un mezzo del genere, equivale in realtà al diritto di distruggere la città.

11/11

La funzione principale della città è quella di convertire la potenza in forma, l'energia in cultura, la materia morta nei simboli viventi dell'arte, la riproduzione biologica in creatività sociale.