Lewis Mumford, “What is a City?”, from
Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout, The City Reader. London:Routledge, 1996.
5th paragraph
The physical organization of the city may deflate this drama or make it frustrate; or it may, through the deliberate efforts of art, politics, and education, make the drama more richly significant, as a stage-set, well-designed, intensifıes and underlines the gestures of the actors and the action ofthe play.