Submitted by Myriam Mahiques

The City and the Crowds

Architecture News - Feb 20, 2010 - 03:38   6706 views

The idea that crowds demonstrate bizarre, almost pathological behavior was launched by the eminent French sociologist Gustave Le Bon. He discussed that a crowd was more than just the sum of its members, it was a kind of independent organism. It had an entity and a will of its own, and it often acted in ways that no one within the crowd intended. A crowd could be brave or cruel, but never smart. 
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