Tuesday April 29, 2008 at 22:39
“The end product [of Suburbia] is an encapsulated life, spent more and more either in a motor car or within the cabin of darkness before a television set…”
—
Lewis Mumford, The City in History (1961)
For those interested, Mumford has written both academic tomes on urban issues as well as many essays relating his love of the city. Well worth hunting down and reading.
