Mumford on urban transformation as social processes

kristinesamson:

“In the city, the making and remaking of selves … is one of its principal functions … each urban period provides a multitude of new roles and an equal diversity of new potentialities. These brig about corresponding changes in laws, manners, moral evaluations, costume, and architecture, and finally they transform the city as a living whole.”

Lewis Mumford in What is a city