Lewis Mumford on the city

[ohhprime]

To watch in full go to

archive.org

[DKWtube]

@ohhprime This isn't available on archive.org The doc that's there is called "The City", made in 1939. It's not the same one.

[glebsterinc]

I have been lookin for this whole movie does not seem like its available online sadly.

[ohhprime]

@glebsterinc Go to archive.org



[LuizMartins]

I watch this video just now for the first time. Lewis Mumford was a friend of Professor Johnson Marshall and Patrick Geddes, as well. Geddes was a friend of Darwin. I knew Professor Marshall at the U. of Edinburgh. So...

[HAMLETSGHOST100]

Lewis Mumford was one of the greatest minds this country---or the world for that matter---ever produced. His epic 2-part work entitled "Pyramids of Power: The Myth of the Machine" [circa 1967] provided an expansive look at human history from the dawn of man forward to the present day. It is a pity that such a great mind is so little known in our shallow society while we track the mundane antics of B-list movie stars as if their activities were of importance to our lives.

[soulstice99]

very very well stated.

[The5thW]

@HAMLETSGHOST100 Foundational literature for any sustainable future. Unsurpassed and timely. The bibliographies alone are an education.

[GrantValdes]

I was shocked that there wasn't more footage of Mr. Mumford Youtube, so I recorded an excerpt from his book "The Conduct of Life." Have a look here >>

/watch?v=h-KR--NrGpE

[ludachris475]

Cities mainly that are accustomed to enjoy liberty, and to be governed by their own citizens, remain more quiet and content under a government which they do not see (even should it involve some

inconveniences), than under one which they have daily before their eyes, and which would seem constantly to remind them of their servitude. - Niccoló Machiavelli, The Discourses on the First Decades of Livy. 1517.

[ludachris475]

"It is impossible for a republic to remain long in the quiet enjoyment of freedom within her limited confines; for even if she does not molest others, others will molest her, and from being thus molested will spring the desire and necessity of conquests, and even if she has no foreign foes, she will find domestic enemies amongst her own citizens, for such seems to be the inevitable fate of all large cities."

- Niccoló Machiavelli, The Discourses. 1517.

[ludachris475]

"The cities where the people are masters make the greatest progress in the least possible time, and much greater than such as have always been governed by princes."

- Niccoló Machiavelli, The Discourses on the First Decade of Livy. 1517.

[mista74]

I think this documentary is a seven part series created by the National Film Board of Canada...back when they had a lot of money to make some amazing documentaries.

[jfreijser]

Tx ! Finally a few clips with Lewis Mumford himself appearing in them! A first on Youtube.

Is the documentary available in full from somewhere?