For 10 points, name this 1961 book about the "origins, transformations, and prospects" of the titleentity, written by Lewis Mumford.
This work argues that a "bastard estheticism of a single uniform style" eventually prevailed because it gave precedence to"visible power" over the "invisible processes of life," in a chapter about a kind of "housekeeping." The subject of this workis described as a "collective invention... second only to language itself in the transmission of culture," but is periodically underminedby a phenomenon dubbed "negative symbiosis."This work, which draws heavily on the research of Patrick Geddes,ends with a chapter titled "Retrospect and Prospect," which argues that this work's title subject ought to be an "organ oflove." This work built on its author's earlier methods of studying the development of technology expressed in such works asTechnics and Civilization, and it argues against sprawl and suburbia while claiming the middle ages offered ideal and "organic"examples of the title entity. For 10 points, name this 1961 book about the "origins, transformations, and prospects" of the titleentity, written by Lewis Mumford.
This work argues that a "bastard estheticism of a single uniform style" eventually prevailed because it gave precedence to"visible power" over the "invisible processes of life," in a chapter about a kind of "housekeeping.
The City in History