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Lewis Mumford
An examination of Cities of the Western world tracing their development from Egypt through the Middle Ages to the present.
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Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and Civilization, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we…
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Donald L. Miller
Malcolm Cowley called Lewis Mumford the last of the great humanists, and indeed, in more than six decades of writing, Mumford made contributions to history, philosophy, literature, art, architectural criticism…
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Sir Patrick Geddes
Charts the astonishing correspondence between these two great thinkers to reveal much about the intellectual culture of the period. Previously unpublished material details their extraordinary personal and professional relationship.
Li Shuxue
Lewis Mumford’s achievements as an architectural critic, literary critic and urbanist are well known. However, his contribution to the American studies movement and to cultural studies in general has almost…
Utopia has long been another name for the unreal and the impossible. We have set utopia over against the world. As a matter of fact, it is our utopias that…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
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…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1922Original Publisher: Boni and LiverightSubjects: UtopiasBody, Mind
Originally published in 1957, this volume compares the 20th Century transformation of human life to the revolution which swept early man into the first civilized communities.
Discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization.
Documents author’s life in New York City’s East Village during its heyday in the tumultuous 1980s.
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…
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…
Robert Turner
Multinational food corporations have taken over the food supply. Lewis Mumford and a misfit band of rebel food fighters battle to take back control of their food and their lives…
Professor Lewis Mumford,Mumford
A personal selection reflecting 50 years of publication by the winner of the National Medal for Literature for 1972.
A collection of twenty-six essays from the New Yorker’s Sky Line column.
Professor Lewis Mumford
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
A. Glikson
Though Glikson attended many other important international conferences, notably the International Seminar on Regional Planning in The Hague in 1957, and the International conference of Landscape Architects in Amsterdam in…
William J. Cohen
Lewis Mumford, one of the most respected public intellectuals of the twentieth century, speaking at a conference on the future environments of North America, said, In order to secure human…
Between 1928 and 1981, architectural and cultural critic Lewis Mumford exchanged nearly six hundred letters with Melville scholar and Harvard psychologist Henry A Murray. This book documents that interaction. It…
Robert Wojtowicz (Old Dominion University, Virginia)
Lewis Mumford and American Modernism examines the career and writings of America’s leading critic of architecture. His numerous books on the history of architecture have proved to be prescient, forming…
Professor Aaron Sachs
Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history-the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819-1891) and one of his earliest biographers…
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Artur Glikson
William Morris
News from Nowhere is a visionary utopian novel that chronicles a time traveler's quest for love and friendship in a future ideal world. Includes commentary by Lewis Mumford on classic…
Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, this title explains the origin of the machine age and traces its social results, asserting that the development of modern…
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Edward Bellamy
In Looking Backward, what is, on the surface, a time travel love story quickly becomes a deep exploration of society, its values, and the proper role of government. Includes commentary…
Alec Miller
This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…
Casey Nelson Blake
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford 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. This…
Mumford Lewis
A study of the development of the personality and the community. With a preface by the author. 16 pages of illustrations.
This survey of utopias, which spans from Plato to the twentieth century, was Lewis Mumford’s first success. He was particularly interested in what he calls utopias of reconstruction, models for…
Ebenezer Howard
The classic work that introduced the concept of the Garden City.
Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history-the novelist and poet Herman Melville (18191891) and one of his earliest biographers…
In the 1970s the relationship between literature and the environment emerged as a topic of serious and widespread interest among writers and scholars. This volume looks behind these recent developments…
