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Technics and Civilization
Language: en
Pages: 524
Authors: Lewis Mumford
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-30 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, t
Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: Frank G. Novak Jr.
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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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 n
The City in History
Language: en
Pages: 788
Authors: Lewis Mumford
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1961 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. "One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century"
Art and Technics
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Lewis Mumford
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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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
Sidewalk Critic
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Lewis Mumford
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

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Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) is best known for his Sky Line column in the New Yorker where he served as architecture critic for over 30 years. A man of letters and