The city in history

of Lewis Mumford What is the city? How did it begin? What have been the phases of its development? Is it destined to disappear, or will our planet turn into a huge urban hive, which would be, for individualized cities,…

“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives

“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives

of Lewis Mumford What is the city? How did it begin? What have been the phases of its development? Is it destined to disappear, or will our planet turn into a huge urban hive, which would be, for individualized cities,…

Introduction “Man and the Earth” is the last great work of Élisée Reclus, geographer, anarchist and ecologist thinker of the 19th century. Published between 1905 and 1908, this six-volume encyclopedia offers a global vision of the history of humanity in…