The City has a Social Organism

Abstract

In his discussion of the emergence of the first urban areas, Lewis Mumford talks about small communal village cells, without distinctive and uncomplicated characteristics, each party also performing its function, which changed to complex structures, organized under an axial principle (axiate), with differentiated tissues and specialized organisms, and with one part, the central nervous system, thinking for and directing the whole.This is the image of the city as a social organism.