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Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

Author of The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

Includes the names: L. Mumford, Lewis Mumford, Lewis Mumford, Mumford Lewis et. al., Architekturtheoretiker Lewis Mumford

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Works by Lewis Mumford

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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects 763 copies, 5 reviews
Technics and Civilization 270 copies
The Myth Of The Machine - The Pentagon Of Power 220 copies
The Culture of Cities 129 copies
Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development 127 copies, 2 reviews
Sticks and Stones (Dover Books on Architecture) 111 copies
The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895 (Dover Books… 107 copies
Art and Technics 63 copies
The Lewis Mumford Reader 60 copies
The condition of man 56 copies
The Highway and the City 55 copies
Roots of Contemporary American Architecture: A Series of Thirty Seven… 50 copies
Herman Melville 49 copies, 1 review
The conduct of life 49 copies

The Story of Utopias 46 copies, 1 review

From The Ground Up: Observations On Contemporary Architecture, Housing,… 44 copies

The Urban Prospect 43 copies

The Transformations of Man 42 copies

Interpretations and forecasts: 1922-1972;: Studies in literature, history,… 37 copies

The myth of the machine 31 copies

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Journals (Editor) 25 copies

The golden day; a study in American literature and culture 23 copies

Sketches from life : the autobiography of Lewis Mumford : the early years 19 copies

My works and days: A personal chronicle 17 copies, 1 review

The human prospect 14 copies

The Future Of Technics And Civilization. 14 copies

Faith for living 13 copies

In the name of sanity 11 copies

Architecture as a Home for Man 9 copies

Findings and keepings: Analects for an autobiography 9 copies

Human Way Out 8 copies

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Also by Lewis Mumford

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Writing New York {Original Edition} (Contributor) 189 copies, 2 reviews
Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited (Introduction, some editions) 129 copies
Man Alone: Alienation in Modern Society (Contributor) 86 copies
The Other Side of Western Civilization: Readings in Everyday Life (Contributor) 53 copies
Whither Mankind: A Panorama of Modern Civilization (Contributor) 22 copies, 2 reviews

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Mumford, Lewis Charles

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Places of residence

Flushing, New York, USA (birth)

Armenia, New York, USA (death)

Education

City College of New York

New School for Social Research

Stuyvesant High School

Occupations

Relationships

Mumford, Sophia (wife)

Mumford, Geddes (son)

Organizations

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1930)

Awards and honors

National Medal of Arts (1986)

Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964)

Order of the British Empire (Honorary Knight Commander ∙ 1943)

Prix mondial Cino Del Duca (1976)

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Herman Melville

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New York, New York, USA

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