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Foreword: Whence Urban Conservation, Via Lewis Mumford

Foreword: Whence Urban Conservation, Via Lewis Mumford FOREWORD: WHENCE URBAN CONSERVATION, VIA LEWIS MUMFORD RANDALL MASON University of Pennsylvania Lewis Mumford’s pencil sketch of Edinburgh, from September 1925, collects images of the city’s urban structure and architectural aspect. Visualizing cities—making and using images—contributed centrally to Mumford’s masterful narratives about urban evolution. (Lewis Mumford Papers, Kislak Center for Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania) PAGE 2 .................18553$ $CH1 03-31-14 09:15:04 PS Thecityisbothaphysicalutilityforcollectivelivingandasymbolofthosecollective purposes and unanimities that arise under such favoring circumstance. With language itself, it remains man’s [sic] greatest work of art. Lewis Mumford, ‘‘What is a City?’’ (1937) Lewis Mumford, the towering urban intellectual of the twentieth century, rarely got things wrong. His magisterial histories and trenchant criticism mapped out the evolution of cities and urban culture as functions of changing technology, the need to forge human relationships with nature, and the art and science of designing settlements and buildings. While deeply informed by history, Mumford’s urban analysis and critique very much engaged his contemporary city—or, more to his point, the regions in which we live and that are centered on cities. In this, Mumford mirrored the pragmatic challenge for the field of urban conservation, the subject of this issue of Change Over Time: cultivating a deepknowledge http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Change Over Time University of Pennsylvania Press

Foreword: Whence Urban Conservation, Via Lewis Mumford

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Change Over Time , Volume 4 (1) – May 5, 2014
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FOREWORD: WHENCE URBAN CONSERVATION, VIA LEWIS MUMFORD RANDALL MASON University of Pennsylvania Lewis Mumford’s pencil sketch of Edinburgh, from September 1925, collects images of the city’s urban structure and architectural aspect. Visualizing cities—making and using images—contributed centrally to Mumford’s masterful narratives about urban evolution. (Lewis Mumford Papers, Kislak Center for Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania) PAGE 2 .................18553$ $CH1 03-31-14 09:15:04 PS Thecityisbothaphysicalutilityforcollectivelivingandasymbolofthosecollective purposes and unanimities that arise under such favoring circumstance. With language itself, it remains man’s [sic] greatest work of art. Lewis Mumford, ‘‘What is a City?’’ (1937) Lewis Mumford, the towering urban intellectual of the twentieth century, rarely got things wrong. His magisterial histories and trenchant criticism mapped out the evolution of cities and urban culture as functions of changing technology, the need to forge human relationships with nature, and the art and science of designing settlements and buildings. While deeply informed by history, Mumford’s urban analysis and critique very much engaged his contemporary city—or, more to his point, the regions in which we live and that are centered on cities. In this, Mumford mirrored the pragmatic challenge for the field of urban conservation, the subject of this issue of Change Over Time: cultivating a deepknowledge

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