• The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

  Lewis Mumford
  American social philosopher 1895-1990
  

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1. reproduction
2. creativity
3. culture
4. symbols
5. living
6. social

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. by : Lewis Mumford

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