Before Modern Man Can Gain Control Over The Forces That Now Threaten His Very Existence, He Must Resume Possession Of Himself. This Sets The Chief Mission For The City Of The Future: That Of Creating A Visible Regional And Civic Structure, Designed To Make Man At Home With His Deeper Self And His Larger World, Attached To Images Of Human Nature And Love.

-Lewis Mumford

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Before Modern Man Can Gain Control Over

Lewis Mumford

Before Modern Man Can Gain Control Over The Forces That Now Threaten His Very Existence, He Must Resume Possession Of Himself. This Sets The Chief Mission For The City Of The Future: That Of Creating A Visible Regional And Civic Structure, Designed To Make Man At Home With His Deeper Self And His Larger World, Attached To Images Of Human Nature And Love.

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Moment To Moment, It Turns Out, Is Not God's Conception, Or Nature's. It Is Man Conversing With Himself About And Through A Piece Of Machinery He Created."we Effectively Became "time-keepers, And Then Time-savers, And Now Time-servers" With The Invention Of The Clock."

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