The Lewis Mumford reader
By: edited by Donald L. Miller.
Contributors: Miller, Donald L., 1944-
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Civilization.; Cities and towns -- History.; Architecture.; Technology and civilization.; United States -- Civilization.
Description: This volume brings together representative selections of Lewis Mumford's major writings on the central concerns of his life. Praised by Malcolm Cowley as "the last of the great humanists," Mumford (1895-1990) produced a body of cultural criticism and commentary that for its range and richness is unmatched in modern American letters.

Author of countless articles and more than thirty books - including the landmark works The Culture of the Cities and The City in History - Mumford is arguably this century's foremost architectural critic. In addition, he shaped some of the most important public policy debates of our time, writing with vigor on such issues as urban development, transportation policy, land planning, the environment, nuclear disarmament, and the problems and promises of technology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-373) and index.
Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, c1986.