Comments on: Lewis Mumford’s Crystal Ball http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/02/12/lewis-mumfords-crystal-ball/ Smart Growth defined: Making the car an option, not a necessity.* Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:08:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: If You Want To Understand The Real Reason There Are So Many Sucky Townhouses Going Up… | hugeasscity http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/02/12/lewis-mumfords-crystal-ball/#comment-2797 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:00:35 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/02/12/lewis-mumfords-crystal-ball/#comment-2797 [...] And all apologies, but I’m going to continue to repeat myself and leave you with this 1961 Lewis Mumford quote: “The right to access every building in the city by private motorcar, in an age when everyone owns such a vehicle, is actually the right to destroy the city.” [...] […] And all apologies, but I’m going to continue to repeat myself and leave you with this 1961 Lewis Mumford quote: “The right to access every building in the city by private motorcar, in an age when everyone owns such a vehicle, is actually the right to destroy the city.” […]

]]> by: Blame Lewis Mumford | hugeasscity http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/02/12/lewis-mumfords-crystal-ball/#comment-2207 Thu, 22 May 2008 07:33:38 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/02/12/lewis-mumfords-crystal-ball/#comment-2207 [...] Lewis Mumford ruined my life. I was once a highly-paid electrical engineer. But then I started reading too much, and kept seeing references to this mysterious Mumford dude. Then I happened upon a used copy of The Myth of the Machine and got my mind blown. [...] […] Lewis Mumford ruined my life. I was once a highly-paid electrical engineer. But then I started reading too much, and kept seeing references to this mysterious Mumford dude. Then I happened upon a used copy of The Myth of the Machine and got my mind blown. […]

]]> by: michael http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/02/12/lewis-mumfords-crystal-ball/#comment-571 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:14:49 +0000 http://noisetank.com/hugeasscity/2008/02/12/lewis-mumfords-crystal-ball/#comment-571 Love LM's style “In short, the American has sacrificed his life as a whole to the motorcar, like someone who, demented with passion, wrecks his home in order to lavish his income on a capricious mistress who promises delights he can only occasionally enjoy.” can it be said any better? Love LM’s style “In short, the American has sacrificed his life as a whole to the motorcar, like someone who, demented with passion, wrecks his home in order to lavish his income on a capricious mistress who promises delights he can only occasionally enjoy.”

can it be said any better?

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