Mumford, Lewis Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Brooklyn Bridge

  1981, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 1: The City - Heaven and Hell

  1963, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 2: The City - Cars or People?

  1963, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 3: The City and Its Region

  1963, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 4: The Heart of the City

  1963, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 5: The City as Man's Home

  1963, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Lewis Mumford on the City, Part 6: The City and the Future

  1963, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The City

  1939, role: writer

Famous quotes by Lewis Mumford:

"New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city."

"The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does"

"Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past"

"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind."

"A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail."

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

"The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind."

"One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence"

"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers"

"Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet."

"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."

"Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends."

"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."

"The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live."

"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."

"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life."

"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf."

"Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act."

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

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