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City in History by Lewis Mumford
Booksplease Price: $41.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156180351Author Lewis MumfordFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint Harcourt Brace... -
Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $44.85"Technics and Civilization" first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 - before television, the personal computer, and the... -
The Transformations of Man by Lewis Mumford
Booksplease Price: $201.22Originally published in 1957, this volume compares the 20th Century transformation of human life to the revolution which swept early man into the first civilized communities. It shows how each... -
The Highway and the City by Lewis Mumford 9780313227479
Booksplease Price: $149.19A collection of essays by the respected social commentator on some problems faced by cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Paris, on the architecture of Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and Wright, and... -
The Transformations of Man by Lewis Mumford 9781032181264
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $58.13Originally published in 1957, this volume compares the 20th Century transformation of human life to the revolution which swept early man into the first civilized communities. It shows how each... -
The Conduct of Life by Lewis Mumford 9780156216005
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $43.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156216005Author Lewis MumfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner... -
The Ecological Basis of Planning by Lewis Mumford 9789024711932
Booksplease Price: $90.25When Artur Glikson died in July 1966 he was still comparatively unknown; yet paradoxically he had an international reputation that went beyond town planning and architectural circles. As far back as... -
The Story of Utopias by Professor Lewis Mumford 9781498027700
RRP: $70.10Booksplease Price: $61.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498027700Author Professor Lewis MumfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
The Pentagon of Power: The Myth of the Machine by Lewis Mumford 9780156716109
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $47.07In this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on... -
Aphrodite: Moeurs antiques (Edition1) by Lewis Mumford 9789362511591
RRP: $33.52Booksplease Price: $26.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362511591Author Lewis MumfordPage Count 100Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions -
Myth of the Machine: Techniques and Human Development by Lewis Mumford 9780156623414
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $32.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156623414Author Lewis MumfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher... -
The Story of Utopias: 100th Anniversary Edition by Lewis Mumford 9781614720492
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $50.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614720492Author Lewis MumfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Berkshire Publishing Group... -
Lewis Mumford: Critic of Culture and Civilization by Shuxue Li 9783039115570
RRP: $100.04Booksplease Price: $90.05Lewis Mumford's achievements as an architectural critic, literary critic and urbanist are well known. However, his contribution to the American studies movement and to cultural studies in general has... -
By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture At the Dawn of the Atomic Age by Paul S. Boyer 9780807844809
RRP: $72.15Booksplease Price: $61.00Originally published in 1985, By the Bomb's Early Light is the first book to explore the cultural 'fallout' in America during the early years of the atomic age. Paul Boyer argues that the major... -
Lewis Mumford and Patrick Geddes: The Correspondence by Frank G. Novak Jr.
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $87.11I am a disciple of Patrick Geddes, and I am an abject admirer of everything he has said and done. The tantalising nearness of everything we most want; were it not for some fatal, stubborn grain in... -
Portland's Good Life: Sustainability and Hope in an American City by R. Bruce Stephenson 9781793614599
Booksplease Price: $73.73Iconic urbanist Lewis Mumford stressed the role of a well-constructed city in the development of the good life, championing pedestrian-scaled, sustainable cities. In Portland's Good Life, R. Bruce... -
Portland's Good Life: Sustainability and Hope in an American City by R. Bruce Stephenson 9781793614575
Booksplease Price: $178.80Iconic urbanist Lewis Mumford stressed the role of a well-constructed city in the development of the good life, championing pedestrian-scaled, sustainable cities. In Portland's Good Life, R. Bruce... -
Ecohumanism and the Ecological Culture: The Educational Legacy of Lewis Mumford and Ian McHarg by William J. Cohen
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.83Lewis Mumford, one of the most respected public intellectuals of the twentieth century, speaking at a conference on the future environments of North America, said, "In order to secure human survival... -
Lewis Mumford and American Modernism: Eutopian Theories for Architecture and Urban Planning by Robert Wojtowicz 9780521639248
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $69.56Lewis Mumford and American Modernism examines the career and writings of America's leading critic of architecture. The author of numerous books on the history of architecture, Mumford focused on the... -
Ecohumanism and the Ecological Culture: The Educational Legacy of Lewis Mumford and Ian McHarg by William J. Cohen 9781439918272
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $109.71Lewis Mumford, one of the most respected public intellectuals of the twentieth century, speaking at a conference on the future environments of North America, said, "In order to secure human survival... -
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Professor Aaron Sachs
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.94Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them-and their uncanny... -
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Professor Aaron Sachs 9780691236957
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $33.50Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them-and their uncanny... -
The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905-1930 by Iva Glisic
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $61.91Futurism was Russia's first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the destruction of everything old, so that the past... -
Interpretations & Forecasts 1922-1972: Studies in Literature, History, Biography, Technics, and Contemporary Society by Professor Lewis Mumford 9780156449038
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $42.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156449038Author Professor Lewis MumfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Imprint Houghton... -
From the Ground Up: Observations on Contemporary Architecture, Housing, Highway Building, and Civic Design by Professor Lewis Mumford 9780156340199
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $27.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156340199Author Professor Lewis MumfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Wadsworth Publishing... -
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford by Casey Nelson Blake 9780807842966
Booksplease Price: $88.00The ""Young American"" critics -- Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford -- are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village ""Little Renaissance"" of the 1910s... -
Philosophy and Technology by Carl Mitcham 9780029214305
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.64From editors Carl Mitcham and Robert Mackey comes an unusually reflective and wide-ranging colloquium on technology as a philosophical problem.Organized into sections on conceptual issues, ethical... -
American Trajectories: Authors and Readings, 1790-1970 by Warner Berthoff 9780271026176
Booksplease Price: $72.91In American Trajectories Warner Berthoff argues that even in the broadest cultural and historical perspective, imaginative literature (like all the arts) is a matter of individual signatures and... -
City Life by Rybczynski 9780684825298
Booksplease Price: $27.07Tracing the development of American cities and city life from early colonial settlements to the familiar downtowns of today, a sweeping cultural history reveals how our urban spaces have been shaped... -
Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s by Robert Mumford 9780520258082
RRP: $44.85Booksplease Price: $38.43Although Lewis Mumford is widely acknowledged as the seminal American critic of architecture and urbanism in the twentieth century, he is less known for his art criticism. He began contributing to... -
Folk Engineering: Planning Southern Regionalism Stephen J. Ramos 9781469690100
RRP: $159.90Booksplease Price: $123.88During the interwar years, the discourse of regional planning profoundly reformulated the spatiality of race and place in the United States. In the South, Jim Crow brutality and agriculture crisis... -
Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s by Amy Koritz
Booksplease Price: $83.38In this multidisciplinary study, Amy Koritz examines the drama, dance, and literature of the 1920s, focusing on how artists used these different media to engage three major concurrent shifts in... -
Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee Cates Baldridge 9780813951621
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $144.83A critical examination of the 'agricultural trap' in literature For thousands of years, agriculture and civilization were essentially synonymous. The superiority of farming over the unsettled,... -
A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America by Thomas M. Allen 9780807858653
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Building a nation by envisioning the future.The development of the American nation has typically been interpreted in terms of its expansion through space, specifically its growth west-ward. In this... -
Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee Cates Baldridge 9780813951638
Booksplease Price: $58.97A critical examination of the 'agricultural trap' in literature For thousands of years, agriculture and civilization were essentially synonymous. The superiority of farming over the unsettled,... -
Folk Engineering: Planning Southern Regionalism Stephen J. Ramos 9781469690117
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70During the interwar years, the discourse of regional planning profoundly reformulated the spatiality of race and place in the United States. In the South, Jim Crow brutality and agriculture crisis... -
Inventing Future Cities by Michael Batty 9780262548656
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.94How we can invent-but not predict-the future of cities.We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like... -
The Ideal of Total Environmental Control: Knud Loenberg-Holm, Buckminster Fuller, and the SSA by Suzanne Strum 9780367364496
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $84.75This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Loenberg- Holm, a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic,... -
The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective by Harvey Cox 9780691158853
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $35.88Since its initial publication in 1965, The Secular City has been hailed as a classic for its nuanced exploration of the relationships among the rise of urban civilization, the decline of... -
When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect by Eva Hagberg 9780691206677
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $48.91A uniquely personal biographical account of Louchheim's life and work that takes readers inside the rarified world of architecture mediaAline B. Louchheim (1914-1972) was an art critic on assignment...