Product Description: The Story of Utopias, written and edited in 1922, is a unique work, in which Lewis Mumford makes the analysis of historical utopias, based on the distinction between utopias of escape and utopias of reconstruction, including these most classic literary utopias, Plato Edward Bellamy, through Thomas More, Bacon, Campanella and others...read more

Product Description: 1929. In this study of Herman Melville's life and thought, the author primarily relied on Melville's own writings, including his letters, and some of his notebooks. This work is singularly complete in that part of Melville which most matters: his ideas, his feelings, his urges, his vision of life...read more

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Featuring a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake, this classic text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture. Mumford contends that modern man's overemphasis on technics has contributed to the depersonalization and emptiness of much of twentieth-century life. He issues a call for a renewed respect for artistic impulses and achievements. His repeated insistence that technological development take the Human as its measure―as well as his impassioned plea for humanity to make the most of its "splendid potentialities and promise" and reverse its progress toward anomie and destruction―is ever more relevant as the new century dawns. (view table of contents)

An examination of Cities of the Western world tracing their development from Egypt through the Middle Ages to the present

Gathers selections dealing with architecture, city planning, the history of the city, technology and the future.

Product Description: This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results. "An extraordinarily wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon which philosophers have so far shed but little light" (Journal of Philosophy)...read more

An analysis of the communities, buildings, and surrounding regions which have characterized cities from medieval times to the present

Examines contemporary man's preoccupation with technology appraising mass production and automation and their by-products pollution, mass destruction, and waste

The evolution of the American tradition in architecture is related to domestic elements and to forces originating outside the United States

Product Description: Featuring a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake, this classic text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture. Mumford contends that modern man's overemphasis on technics has contributed to the depersonalization and emptiness of much of twentieth-century life...read more

Product Description: When 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 1955, when he was forty­ four years old, he was an active participant in the notable Wenner-Gren Conference on "Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth," where he presented the first paper in the present book...read more