The culture of cities

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1. max_Jan 2024
   Lewis Mumford's Books;

   - Technics & Civilization

   - The Culture of Cities

   - The Story of Utopias

   Lewis Mumford talks about technology, but from an anthropological pint of view.

   Another book I would recommend is The Nature of Technology by Brian Arthur

   The other I would recommend is James Burk's Connections he's has some books but I but the documentary is highly recommended.

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2. DyslexicAtheistFeb 2019

     - Jacques Ellul "The Technological Society"
     - N.N.Taleb "The Black Swan"
     - Danny Kahneman "Thinking Fast & Slow" (also his papers with Amos Tversky)
     - Thomas Ligotti "The Conspiracy against the Human Race"
     - Peter Wessel Zapffe "On the Tragic" & "The Last Messiah"
     - Sokal, Alan D "Intellectual Impostures"
     - Simon Herbert "A The Sciences of the Artificial"
     - Herbert Marcuse "One-Dimensional Man"
     - Schopenhauer "Parerga and Paralipomena"
     - Lewis Mumford "The Story of Utopias"
     - Michel Foucault "Discipline and Punish"
     - Edward S. Herman "Manufacturing Consent - The Political Economy of the Mass Media"
     - Franklin Foer "World Without Mind The Existential Threat of Big Tech"
     - Ben Goldacre "Bad science"
     - Emil Cioran "The Book of Delusions"
     - Gracian "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
     - Heidegger Martin "The Question Concerning Technology"
     - Jacques Ellul "Propaganda The Formation of Mens Attitudes"
     - Mumford Lewis "The Culture of Cities"
     - Orwell "1984", "Down and Out in Paris and London", "Animal Farm"
     - Huxley "Brave New World", "The Doors Of Perception"
     - Michael Pollan "How to change your mind"
     - Jeff Hawkins "On Intelligence"
     - Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man", "Notes from the Underground", "The Brothers Kasamarov", "The Gambler", "The Idiot", "Crime & Punishment"
     - Peter Smith "Teach Yourself Logic"
     - Thomas More "Utopia"
     - Emil Cioran "The Trouble With Being Born"
     - Solzhenitsyn "The Gulag Archipelago"
     - Nietzsche "Complete works"
     - Bulgakov "Master and Margarita"
     - Gerald M. Weinberg "The Secrets of Consulting"

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3. mixonicJan 2015
   It is a megalopolis! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis

   "A megalopolis (sometimes improperly called a megapolis) or megaregion is typically defined as a chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan areas. The term was used by Patrick Geddes in his 1915 book Cities in Evolution,[1] by Oswald Spengler in his 1918 book, The Decline of the West, and Lewis Mumford in his 1938 book, The Culture of Cities, which described it as the first stage in urban overdevelopment and social decline."

   vs megacity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacity

   "A megacity is usually defined as a metropolitan area with a total population in excess of ten million people.[1] A megacity can be a single metropolitan area or two or more metropolitan areas that converge. The terms conurbation, metropolis and metroplex are also applied to the latter."

   NYC alone is a megacity. The US northeast is a megalopolis.

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