Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

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1. Lewis Mumford

   Author of The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects, Art and Technics, The Highway and the City

2. Jane Jacobs

   Author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Cities and the Wealth of Nations, The Economy of Cities

3. Henry James

   Author of Collected Travel Writings: The Continent, Henry James : Complete Stories 1884-1891 (Library of America), Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America

4. Fernand Braudel

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5. Mike Davis

   Author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, Dead Cities: And Other Tales

6. John Dos Passos

   Author of Novels, 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer (The Library of America), John Dos Passos: Travel Books and Other Writings 1916-1941

7. Witold Rybczynski

   Author of City Life, A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, The Most Beautiful House in the World

8. Robert Venturi

   Author of Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

9. Spiro Kostof

   Author of A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals, The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History, The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form through History

10. Nikolaus Pevsner

    Author of An Outline of European Architecture, Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius; Revised and Expanded Edition

11. Kevin Lynch

    Author of The Image of the City, Good City Form

12. Edmund Wilson

    Author of To the Finland Station, Memoirs of Hecate County, Upstate: Records and Recollections of Northern New York

13. James Agee

    Author of James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction (Library of America), Film Writing and Selected Journalism

14. Thornton Wilder

    Author of Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater (Library of America), Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis rey and Other Novels 1926-1948

15. Vincent Scully

    Author of Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade, American Architecture and Urbanism, The Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Downing to the Origins of Wright; Revised Edition (Yale Publications in the History of Art)

16. Dawn Powell

    Author of Dawn Powell: Novels 1930-1942 (Library of America), Dawn Powell: Novels 1944-1962 (Library of America)

17. Henry-Russell Hitchcock

    Author of The International Style, Architecture, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (Da Capo Paperback)

18. John Hollander

    Author of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2: Herman Melville to Stickney; American Indian Poetry; Folk Songs and Spi

19. Joel Garreau

    Author of Edge City: Life on the New Frontier

20. James Howard Kunstler

    Author of Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition