Wayback Machine: "Our National Flower is the Concrete Cloverleaf"
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 02.22.08

Wendy Waters of urban design website All about Cities dug up some zinger quotes from Lewis Mumford (1895-1990), proving as always that plus ça change, plus c'est pareil.
-Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
-Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
-The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
-New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city.
-Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

















