ABSTRACT
Lewis Mumford lays out his fundamental propositions about city planning and the human potential, both individual and social, of urban life. He says city as a theater of social action, and everything else, art, politics, education, commerce, only serve to make the social drama, more richly significant, as a stage-set, well-designed, intensifies and underlines the gestures of the actors and the action of the play. He consistently argued that the physical design of cities and their economic functions were secondary to their relationship to the natural environment and to the spiritual values of human community. Most of peoples' housing and city planning has been handicapped because those who have undertaken the work have had no clear notion of the social functions of the city. The city is a related collection of primary groups and purposive associations: like family and neighborhood, are common to all communities, while the second are especially characteristic of city life.
