what is a city - and whose city is it?

1. What is a city — and whose city is

2. The Valley of Ashes

3. The Valley of Ashes

4. Gatsby

5. Gatsby

6. Gatsby

7. 1939 World’s Fair

8. 1939 World’s Fair

9. 1964 World’s Fair

10. Today

11. Today

12. Today

14. The city in its complete sense, then, is a
geographic plexus, an economic
organization, an institutional process, a
theater of social action, and an aesthetic
symbol of collective unity. The city fosters
art and is art; the city creates the theater
and is the theater. It is in the city, the city as
theater, that man’s more purposive
activities are focused, and work out,
through conflicting and cooperating
personalities, events, groups, into more
significant culminations.
Lewis Mumford, “What’s a City?”
What is a city — and whose city is

15. The city in its complete sense, then, is a
geographic plexus, an economic
organization, an institutional process, a
theater of social action, and an aesthetic
symbol of collective unity. The city
fosters art and is art; the city creates the
theater and is the theater. It is in the city,
the city as theater, that man’s more
purposive activities are focused, and work
out, through conflicting and cooperating
personalities, events, groups, into more
significant culminations.
Lewis Mumford, “What’s a City?”
What is a city — and whose city is