What is a city?

Downtown Denver, ca. 1990

The city in its complete sense, then, is a geographic plexus, an economic organization, an institutional process, a theater of social action, and an aesthetic symbol of collective unity. The city fosters art and is art; the city creates the theater and is the theater. It is in the city, the city as theater, that man’s more purposive activities are focused, and work out, through conflicting and cooperating personalities, events, groups, into more significant culminations.

~ Lewis Mumford, “What’s a City?” (1937)




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Upper Cut Barbershop (Colfax and High)