Transformations of Man (Torchbks.)

Politics & Social Sciences

MUMFORD, Lewis

Anthropology

Harper&Row

Architecture as a home for man: Essays for architectural record

Architectural Record Books

The City in History (Penguin History)

Business & Money

Economics

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The City in History (Peregrine Books)

History

The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects is a 1961 National Book Award winner by American historian Lewis Mumford. Mumford argues for a world not in which technology rules, but rather in which it achieves a balance with nature. His ideal vision is what can be described as an "organic city," where culture is not usurped by technological innovation but rather thrives with it. Mumford contrasts these cities with those constructed around wars, tyrants, poverty, etc. However, the book is not an attack on the city, but rather an evaluation of its growth, how it came to be, and where it is heading, as evidenced by the final chapter "Retrospect and Prospect."

The City in History

Social Sciences

Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

KBE (October 19, 1895 January 26, 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and 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 and worked closely with his associate the British sociologist Victor Branford. Mumford was also a contemporary and friend of Frank Lloyd Wright, Clarence Stein, Frederic Osborn, Edmund N.

Findings and keepings: Analects for an autobiography

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

This book is an attempt to explain the forces that have shaped technology from prehistoric times on, and have increasingly been shaping modern man. Instead of beginning with the problems of our own generation, Lewis Mumford goes back to the origins of human culture; but so far from accepting man's rise as due mainly to his command of tools and his conquest of nature, he finds solid grounds for rejecting this view. He demonstrates how tools themselves did not and could not develop far without a much more significant series of inventions in ritual, language, and social organization.

The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development

Sociology

Harcourt,brace & World

496 pages - photo illustration sections

THE MYTH OF THE MACHINE - THE PENTAGON OF POWER

HARCOURT, BRACE

Mumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language, and social organization. âIt is a stimulating volume, informed both with an enormous range of knowledge and empathetic spiritâ (Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York Times). Index; photographs.

Technics and Human Development: The Myth of the Machine

Science & Math

Technology

Harcourt

My works and days: A personal chronicle

Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch

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