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1	The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations and Its Prospects more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist An examination of Cities of the Western world tracing their development from Egypt through the Middle Ages to the present. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $8.94! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Pentagon of Power more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.75! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Technics & Civilization more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $12.95! new only from $57.27! \| first editions
4	The Culture of Cities more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $8.48! new only from $99.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The condition of man more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist A study of the development of the personality and the community. With a preface by the author. 16 pages of illustrations. see all copies from $3.49! new only from $18.12! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Art and Technics more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.71! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Conduct of Life more books like this by Lewis Mumford (Preface by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $4.14! new only from $17.40! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Highway and the City more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist A collection of essays by the respected social commentator on some problems faced by cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Paris, on the architecture of Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and Wright, and on city and highway planning. see all copies from $2.20! first editions \| SVS
9	The Story of Utopias more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Technics and Human Development: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. I more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $57.40! \| first editions
11	Myth of the Machine more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! first editions
12	The myth of the machine: technics and human development. more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist see all copies from $7.49! first editions
13	From the Ground Up: Observations on Contemporary Architecture, Housing, Highway Building, and Civic Design more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist A collection of twenty-six essays from the "New Yorker's" "Sky Line" column. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.82! \| SVS
14 view cover	Herman Melville more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $91.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Pentagon of Power: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. II more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $8.92! new only from $25.45! \| SVS
16	Roots of Contemporary American Architecture: A Series of Thirty-Seven Essays Dating from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist Thirty-seven brilliant essays by Adler, Sullivan, Stein, Root, Vaux, Wright, Giedion and others. Fifty-four new photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.16! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895 more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist Buried renaissance of Root, Sullivan, Roebling, W. Homer, Eakins, Ryder, others. 12 illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s more books like this by Lewis Mumford, Robert Wojtowicz (Editor) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.78! new only from $14.40! \| SVS
19 view cover	Interpretations & Forecasts 1922-1972: Studies in Literature, History, Biography, Technics, and Contemporary Society more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist A personal selection reflecting 50 years of publication by the winner of the National Medal for Literature for 1972. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.37! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford's Writings on New York more books like this by Lewis Mumford, Robert Wojtowicz (Editor) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $4.79! new only from $4.93! \| first editions
21 view cover	Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford's Writings on New York more books like this by Robert Wojtowicz (Editor), Lewis Mumford add to wishlist Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) is still revered as one of America's leading cultural critics and an international authority on architecture and urbanism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| SVS
22	The transformations of man more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $72.97! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes: The Correspondence more books like this by Frank G Novak, Lewis Mumford, F Novak Jr add to wishlist "I am a disciple of Patrick Geddes, and I am an abject admirer of everything he has said and done." "The tantalising nearness of everything we most want; were it not for some fatal, stubborn grain in both of us, Geddes and I, linked together, intellectual and emotional, might still conquer the world. For lack of this, he will be imperfectly ... see all copies from $28.00! new only from $175.62! \| first editions
24 view cover	Sticks and Stones more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist Classic of American cultural history; architecture from medieval-inspired earliest forms to 20th century. 21 illus. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.97!
25 view cover	In Old Friendship: The Correspondence of Lewis Mumford and Henry A. Murray, 1928-1981 more books like this by Lewis Mumford, Frank G Novak (Editor) add to wishlist Between 1928 and 1981, architectural and cultural critic Lewis Mumford exchanged nearly six hundred letters with Melville scholar and Harvard psychologist Henry A. Murray. "In Old Friendship" documents that richly rewarding interaction. Covering fifty years of devoted camaraderie between two exceptional minds, the book offers profound insights ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $25.00!

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