“Is there still living a choice between Necropolis and Utopia: the possibility of building a new kind of city that will, freed of inner contradictions, positively enrich and further human development? If we would lay a new foundation for urban life, we must understand the historic nature of the city…”

Lewis Mumford (1961) The City in History.
Secker and Warburg, London, p. 3.

Book launch and international conference