Lewis Mumford
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"From the outset, ‘The Culture of Cities’ was widely hailed as an outstanding interpretation and a worthy successor to its earlier companion volume, ‘Technics and Civilization.’ But despite a certain measure of popular success, the book exerted little influence in the United States. To many urban planners, administrators, and academic specialists, its constructive proposals seemed too remote from ‘practical’ financial and political requirements to be acceptable; and even some of my onetime co-workers and friends regarded my picture of the increasing demoralization and disintegration of Megalopolis as farfetched and unduly pessimistic."--The Culture of Cities (1938) by Lewis Mumford |
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Lewis Mumford, KBE (October 19, 1895 – January 26, 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and influential literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer. Mumford was influenced by the work of Scottish theorist Sir Patrick Geddes.
Mumford was also a contemporary and friend of Frank Lloyd Wright, Clarence Stein, Frederic Osborn, Edmund N. Bacon, and Vannevar Bush.
Bibliography
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- The Story of Utopias (1922)
- Sticks and Stones (1924)
- The Golden Day (1926)
- Herman Melville: A Study of His Life and Vision (1929)
- The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895 (1931)
- The City (1939, a film)
- Men Must Act (1939)
- Faith for Living (1940)
- The South in Architecture (1941)
- "Renewal of Life" series
- Technics and Civilization (1934)
- The Culture of Cities (1938)
- The Condition of Man (1944)
- The Conduct of Life (1951)
- City Development (1945)
- Values for Survival (1946)
- Art and Technics (1952)
- In the Name of Sanity (1954)
- The Transformations of Man (1956 New York: Harper and Row)
- The City in History (1961) (Awarded the National Book Award)
- The Highway and the City (1963, essay collection)
- The Myth of the Machine (2 volumes)
- Technics and Human Development (1967)
- The Pentagon of Power (1970)
- The Urban Prospect (1968, essay collection)
- My Work and Days: A Personal Chronicle (1979)
- Sketches from Life: The Autobiography of Lewis Mumford (1982 New York: Dial Press)
- The Lewis Mumford Reader. Donald L. Miller, ed. (1986 New York: Pantheon Books)