Lewis Mumford: 11 books

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), le célèbre architecte et théoricien de l’architecture organique, et l’historien et critique Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) ont joué un rôle crucial dans l’histoire de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme, comme en témoignent les quelque cent cinquante lettres qu’ils...

The Story of Utopias by Lewis Mumford This early work is the first book written by the American historian, philosopher, literary critic and humanist, Lewis Mumford. In The Story of Utopias, Mumford deals with The New Age, socialism, social sciences, mysticism and utopia. Many of the earliest...

A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker. Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The...

This early work is the first book written by the American historian, philosopher, literary critic and humanist, Lewis Mumford. In The Story of Utopias, Mumford deals with The New Age, socialism, social sciences, mysticism and utopia. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the...

Eminent cultural critic Lewis Mumford’s first book, The Story of Utopias, is a fascinating survey of the development of the concept of “utopia.” Mumford examines the major utopias—discussing Plato’s Republic and Thomas More’s Utopia, among others—concluding with a look at the prospects for utopia as it relates to the realities of urban planning.

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...

The first outline of this book dates back ten years; and since then I have woven it and rewoven it in my mind. The actual work of composition was started by a suggestion from Mr. Van Wyck Brooks; and without Mr. Brooks? encouragement I should perhaps never have begun or carried through the task. The...

Qu’est-ce que la cité ? Comment a-t-elle commencé ? Quelles ont été les phases de son développement ? Est-elle destinée à disparaître, ou notre planète se transformera-t-elle en une immense ruche urbaine, ce qui serait, pour les villes individualisées, une autre façon de disparaître...

9 Tales Powered By Steampunk Table of Contents 1. "Blazing Bodices" by Robert Jeschonek 2. "From the Files of Her Majesty's Clandestine Service" by James Palmer 3. "Aetherium, Book 1: Assassins of the Steam Age" by Joseph Robert Lewis 4. "Heart" by Leslie Claire Walker 5. "Riding the Mainspring"...

9 Amazing Tales Of The Wild West Bundled For You! "Thunder Mountain" by Dean Wesley Smith "A Full Moon Over a Desolate Plain" by Thea Hutcheson "A Turning Point for Charlie Pilsen" by Harvey Stanbrough "Elf Saga, Book 3: Peacemaker" by Joseph Robert Lewis "Tales...

Recently anthropology has turned to accounts of persons-in-history/history-in-persons, focusing on how individuals and groups as agents both fashion and are fashioned by social, political, and cultural discourses and practices. In this approach, power, agency, and history are made explicit as individuals...