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Though his organic vision appears throughout his work, it may not always be apparent how the thread connects between his works. Or that art can be a surer touchstone of reality than science? Or that cities should be conceived as bio-regions?

Or that we have been busily building a suicidal power complex as deadly to life, and especially human life, as it is vulnerable to sudden collapse like a house of cards?

Consider Mumford's criticism of the World Trade Center, made as it was still being built But Dinosaurs were handicapped by insufficient brains and the World Trade Center is only another Dinosaur. Thirty years later the tragedy of the September 11, attack was showed how vulnerable the power complex can be, and how deadly that building handicapped by insufficient brains proved itself to be for thousands of people it entombed.

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