Division of labor Quote by Lewis Mumford

““Through its complex orchestration of time and space, no less than through the social division of labor, life in the city takes on the character of a symphony: specialized human aptitudes, specialized instruments, give rise to sonorous results which, neither in volume nor in quality, could be achieved by any single piece. Cities””

Lewis Mumford

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Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

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Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the…

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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

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Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron…

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The self holds both a hell and a heaven.

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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations…

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Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an…

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Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour…

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Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible…

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A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to…

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Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship.

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Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

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