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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations and Its Prospects
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An examination of Cities of the Western world tracing their development from Egypt through the Middle Ages to the present.
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Pentagon of Power
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In this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs.
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Technics & Civilization
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This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results.
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The Culture of Cities
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This offers the first broad treatment of the city in both its historic and its contemporary aspects. "For distinction, entertainment, information, scholarship, and general human interest [this] is one of the most distinguished books" (Forum). Index; photographs.
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The Story of Utopias
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Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) was an American historian of technology and science. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a tremendously broad career as a writer that also included a period as an influential literary critic. Mumford's earliest books in the field of literary criticism have had a lasting impact on ...
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The condition of man
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A study of the development of the personality and the community. With a preface by the author. 16 pages of illustrations.
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Art and Technics
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Lewis Mumford - architectural critic, theorist of technology, urbanologist, city planner, cultural critic, historian, biographer, and philosopher - was the author of more than thirty influential books, many of which expounded his views on the perils of urban sprawl and a society obsessed with "technics." Featuring a new introduction by Casey ...
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Herman Melville
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In this study of Herman Melville's life and thought, the author primarily relied on Melville's own writings, including his letters, and some of his notebooks. This work is singularly complete in that part of Melville which most matters: his ideas, his feelings, his urges, his vision of life. Wherever possible, the author uses Melville's own ...
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The transformations of man
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The Conduct of Life
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Discusses the ultimated ethical and religious issues the confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization.
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Myth of the Machine
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Technics and Human Development: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. I
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Mumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language, and social organization. "It is a stimulating volume, informed both with an enormous range of knowledge and empathetic spirit" (Eliot Fremont-Smith ...
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The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895
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Buried renaissance of Root, Sullivan, Roebling, W. Homer, Eakins, Ryder, others. 12 illustrations.
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From the Ground Up
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A collection of twenty-six essays from the "New Yorker's" "Sky Line" column.
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Roots of Contemporary American Architecture: A Series of Thirty-Seven Essays Dating from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present
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Thirty-seven brilliant essays by Adler, Sullivan, Stein, Root, Vaux, Wright, Giedion and others. Fifty-four new photos.
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The Urban Prospect
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Explores the physical and social ills of our cities; traces the decline of our cities and the disappearance of natural neighborhood grouping.
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Sketches from Life: The Autobiography of Lewis Mumford: The Early Years
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Interpretations & Forecasts 1922-1972: Studies in Literature, History, Biography, Technics, and Contemporary Society
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Lewis Mumford
A personal selection reflecting 50 years of publication by the winner of the National Medal for Literature for 1972.
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The New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning
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Reprint of a 1928 work by the originator of the Appalachian Trail and later a founder of The Wilderness Society -- featured as a "longlost classic" by the New Yorker in 1989 in a series on controlling growth and preserving the environment. Reissued with the 1962 introduction by social critic Lewis Mumford and a new foreword by David N. Startzell, ...
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Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s
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Although Lewis Mumford is widely acknowledged as the seminal American critic of architecture and urbanism in the twentieth century, he is less known for his art criticism. He began contributing to this field in the early 1920s, and his influence peaked between 1932 and 1937, when he was art critic for the "New Yorker". This book, for the first ...
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Sticks and Stones
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Classic of American cultural history; architecture from medieval-inspired earliest forms to 20th century. 21 illus.
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Sidewalk Critic
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Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) is still revered as one of America's leading cultural critics and an international authority on architecture and urbanism.
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Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford's Writings on New York
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Mumford's "Sky Line" columns were originally published in the New Yorker in the '30s. They are supplemented here by two memoirs. Together, they show why Mumford is considered a public intellectual, not just an architecture critic. He writes with an appreciation of how urban space can meet human needs.
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The Lewis Mumford reader
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The Golden Day: A Study in American Literature and Culture
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