My maturest interpretation of the archaeological and historic evidence will be found in three successive books: The City in History, 1960, Technics and Human...
95 months ago

I USED TO THINK OF MYSELF as the love child of Lewis Mumford and Diana Vreeland. Meaning, architecture critics need a moralistic streak (Mumford's was a...
14 months ago

On Lewis Mumford, Herman Melville, and the gentle art of looking back in time.
30 months ago

By LEWIS MUMFORD. IN THESE times, many men search their souls. Lewis Mumford has preferred to dig into man's history to understand our age. The Condition of...
30 months ago

A stylish double biography paints a picture of the modern age through the eyes of two uniquely perceptive American writers.
27 months ago

The darkest times often feel unprecedented, but as almost any historian will tell you, they're not. Sure, there are sometimes disjunctive,...
27 months ago

Values for Survival. by Lewis Mumford. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1946. 314 pp. $3.00. This book, a collection of articles (some of which appeared in the...
40 months ago

The Conduct of Life. by Lewis Mumford. Harcourt, Brace. 342 pp. $5.00. For twenty years Lewis Mumford has been engaged upon a tetralogy dealing with the...
40 months ago

"Like a stopped clock," the author Lewis Mumford asserts in this 1961 appearance at a Books and Authors Luncheon, he has been exactly right...
144 months ago

Lewis Mumford, a philosopher, literary critic, historian, city planner, cultural and political commentator, essayist and perspicacious writer on the subject of...
418 months ago