Lewis Mumford (19 October 1895 – 26 January 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Particularly...
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The Lewis Mumford House is located on Leedsville Road (Dutchess County Route 2) in the Town of Amenia, New York, United States. It is a white Federal...
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leading members contributed to this goal. Clarence Stein, Benton MacKaye, Lewis Mumford, Charles Harris Whitaker, Alexander Bing, and Henry Wright were the...
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The Myth of the Machine (category Books by Lewis Mumford)
The Myth of the Machine is a two-volume book by Lewis Mumford that takes an in-depth look at the forces that have shaped modern technology since prehistoric...
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industrialization such as John Zerzan, Jacques Ellul, Rachel Carson, Lewis Mumford, and E. F. Schumacher. Its idea of the "disruption of the power process"...
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Thomas Adams List of urban theorists List of urban planners Critics Elizabeth Farrelly Jane Jacobs James Howard Kunstler Lewis Mumford Randal O'Toole...
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Mumford & Sons are a British folk rock band formed in London in 2007. The band consists of Marcus Mumford (lead vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar...
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The City in History (category Books by Lewis Mumford)
Award winner by American historian Lewis Mumford. It was first published by Harcourt, Brace & World (New York). Mumford argues for a world not in which technology...
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criticism from the American Institute of Architects and other groups. Lewis Mumford, author of The City in History and other works on urban planning, criticized...
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addressed leading architects, urban planners, and intellectuals (including Lewis Mumford), speaking on the topic of East Harlem. She urged this audience to "respect...
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link] "The size and regional distribution of the black population". Lewis Mumford Center. Archived from the original on October 12, 2007. Retrieved October...
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movement". He was a major influence on the American urban theorist Lewis Mumford. He was knighted in 1932, shortly before his death at the Scots College...
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32#4 pp 582–597, identifies a loss of influence by such writers as Lewis Mumford, Robert Caro, and Sam Warner, a continuation of the emphasis on narrow...
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Thomas Adams List of urban theorists List of urban planners Critics Elizabeth Farrelly Jane Jacobs James Howard Kunstler Lewis Mumford Randal O'Toole...
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including science, automation, but also politics and human relations. Lewis Mumford – his series of works on technology is referred to and critiqued in...
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shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge." Architecture critic Lewis Mumford cited the piece as the impetus for serious architectural criticism in...
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Constitution & Anti-Segregationist Samuel Eliot Morison Maritime Historian Lewis Mumford Historian, Sociologist & Philosopher of Technology Edward R. Murrow...
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Radburn, NJ. Jacobs tracks Howard's influence through American luminaries Lewis Mumford, Clarence Stein, Henry Wright, and Catherine Bauer, a collection of...
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intellectuals of the 1920s who were "nonacademic" (including H. L. Mencken and Lewis Mumford), where the 1995 collection American Cultural Critics covered mainly...
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Technics and Civilization (category Books by Lewis Mumford)
technology Lewis Mumford. The book presents the history of technology and its role in shaping and being shaped by civilizations. According to Mumford, modern...
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the festival would be taking an indefinite break. Architecture critic Lewis Mumford devoted a large part of a chapter of his 1963 book The Highway and the...
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1951. The suburban design was criticized for their lack of form by Lewis Mumford as it lacked clear boundaries, and by Ian Nairn because "Each building...
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Moonen, executive chef of RM Seafood and R Bar Café at Mandalay Bay Lewis Mumford (1895–1990), architecture critic and historian Tito Muñoz (born 1983)...
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S2CID 220329372. James Howard Kunstler (1993). The Geography of Nowhere. Lewis Mumford. "Lewis Mumford on the City". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2010-02-13...
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Winston Marshall (redirect from Winston Marshall (Mumford & Sons))
folk rock band Mumford & Sons. Prior to this he was in the bluegrass sleaze rap group Captain Kick and the Cowboy Ramblers. With Mumford & Sons, Marshall...
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in order to gain polish. City planning Henri Lefebvre Lewis Mumford Urbanism Charlton T. Lewis; Charles Short (1879). urbānĭtas. Clarendon Press, Oxford...
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Thomas Adams List of urban theorists List of urban planners Critics Elizabeth Farrelly Jane Jacobs James Howard Kunstler Lewis Mumford Randal O'Toole...
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Fourier, Charles Sanders Peirce, Carl Jung, Melanie Klein, Karl Jaspers, Lewis Mumford, Karl August Wittfogel, Wilhelm Reich, Georges Bataille, Louis Hjelmslev...
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establishing the Federal Housing Authority, such as Catherine Bauer and Lewis Mumford. Through these contacts he helped secure federal housing dollars for...
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in the letters between Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn, firstly by Osborn in his 1941 letter to Mumford and later by Mumford, generally condemning...
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