“Here was my city, immense, overpowering, flooded with energy and light…”

— Lewis Mumford

" Sketches from Life: The Autobiography of Lewis Mumford (1982), p. 130
Context: Here was my city, immense, overpowering, flooded with energy and light... The world, at that moment, opened before me, challenging me, beckoning me, demanding something of me that it would take more than a lifetime to give, but raising all my energies by its own vivid promise to a higher pitch.

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