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Originally 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 radical
new stage of human development grew out of changes in human
personality and consciousness, such as the invention of language
and symbols, the origins of universal religions and the
mechanization of everyday life. Despite the threat that the author
foresees from an over-reliance on automation, the book maintains
that humanity still has the means, spiritual, personal and
technological to create a sustainable future for itself, by
increasing the usefulness and freedom of all men.
Originally published in 1898 as To-Morrow: A peaceful path to
reform, "the book", writes F.J. Osborn "holds a unique place in
town planning literature, is cited in all planning bibliographies,
stands on the shelves of the more important libraries, and is
alluded to in most books on planning; yet most of the popular
writers on planning do not seem to have read it - or if they have
read it, to remember what it says." The book led directly to two
experiments in town-founding that by imitation, and imitation of
imitation, have had a profound influence on practical urban
development throughout the world. The book was responsible for the
introduction of the term Garden City in numbers of languages -
Cite-Jardin, Gartenstadt, Ciudad-jardin, Tuinstad - and set into
motion ideas that have helped transform the scientific and
political outlook on town structure and town growth. With urban
renewal and the development of suburban communities as features of
the contemoprary American scene, Garden cities of To-Morrow becomes
"must" reading. In the words of Lewis Mumford: "This is not merely
a book for Technicians: above all it is a book for citizens, for
the people whose actively expressed needs, desires and interests
should guide the planner and administrator at every turn." This
book was first published in it's current form in 1965.
Originally 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 radical
new stage of human development grew out of changes in human
personality and consciousness, such as the invention of language
and symbols, the origins of universal religions and the
mechanization of everyday life. Despite the threat that the author
foresees from an over-reliance on automation, the book maintains
that humanity still has the means, spiritual, personal and
technological to create a sustainable future for itself, by
increasing the usefulness and freedom of all men.
Originally published in 1898 as To-Morrow: A peaceful path to
reform, "the book", writes F.J. Osborn "holds a unique place in
town planning literature, is cited in all planning bibliographies,
stands on the shelves of the more important libraries, and is
alluded to in most books on planning; yet most of the popular
writers on planning do not seem to have read it - or if they have
read it, to remember what it says." The book led directly to two
experiments in town-founding that by imitation, and imitation of
imitation, have had a profound influence on practical urban
development throughout the world. The book was responsible for the
introduction of the term Garden City in numbers of languages -
Cite-Jardin, Gartenstadt, Ciudad-jardin, Tuinstad - and set into
motion ideas that have helped transform the scientific and
political outlook on town structure and town growth. With urban
renewal and the development of suburban communities as features of
the contemoprary American scene, Garden cities of To-Morrow becomes
"must" reading. In the words of Lewis Mumford: "This is not merely
a book for Technicians: above all it is a book for citizens, for
the people whose actively expressed needs, desires and interests
should guide the planner and administrator at every turn." This
book was first published in it's current form in 1965.
A 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 on
city and highway planning.
A study of the development of the personality and the community.
With a preface by the author. 16 pages of illustrations.
In the 1970s the relationship between literature and the
environment emerged as a topic of serious and widespread interest
among writers and scholars. The ideas, debates, and texts that grew
out of this period subsequently converged and consolidated into the
field now known as ecocriticism. A Century of Early Ecocriticism
looks behind these recent developments to a prior generation's
ecocritical inclinations. Written between 1864 and 1964, these
thirty-four selections include scholars writing about the "green"
aspects of literature as well as nature writers reflecting on the
genre. In his introduction, David Mazel argues that these early
"ecocritics" played a crucial role in both the development of
environmentalism and the academic study of American literature and
culture. Filled with provocative, still timely ideas, A Century of
Early Ecocriticism demonstrates that our concern with the natural
world has long informed our approach to literature.
A collection of twenty-six essays from the New Yorker's "Sky Line"
column.
The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner
of the National Book Award. "One of the major works of scholarship
of the twentieth century" (Christian Science Monitor). Index;
illustrations.
In 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 science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to
establish a more organic social order based on technological
resources. Index; photographs.
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. Seven years later he was the only nonscientist
represented in the even more selective Ciba Foundation conference
on Man and his Future. Though Glikson attended many other important
international conferences, notably the International Seminar on
Regional Planning in The Hague in 1957, and the International
conference of Landscape Architects in Amsterdam in 1960, he has yet
to leave his mark on the thought and practice of architects and
planners, his own professional group. The fact that Artur Glikson's
activities as a pioneer in sociological plan ning are still
relatively unknown, might seem a handicap from the point of this
book's getting the public or professional attention that it
deserves. But this is perhaps the best reason for bringing out the
assembled papers and giving a picture of their background in his
personal experience."
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. Seven years later he was the only nonscientist
represented in the even more selective Ciba Foundation conference
on Man and his Future. Though Glikson attended many other important
international conferences, notably the International Seminar on
Regional Planning in The Hague in 1957, and the International
conference of Landscape Architects in Amsterdam in 1960, he has yet
to leave his mark on the thought and practice of architects and
planners, his own professional group. The fact that Artur Glikson's
activities as a pioneer in sociological plan ning are still
relatively unknown, might seem a handicap from the point of this
book's getting the public or professional attention that it
deserves. But this is perhaps the best reason for bringing out the
assembled papers and giving a picture of their background in his
personal experience."
THE SOUTH IN ARCHITECTURE THE SOUTH IN ARCHITECTURE THE D AN C Y
LECTURES ALABAMA COLLEGE 1941 BY LEWIS MUMFORD HARCOURT, BRACE AND
COMPANY, NEW YORK CONTENTS LECTURE ONE The Basis for American Form
3 LECTURE TWO The Universalism of Thomas Jefferson 43 LECTURE THREE
The Regionalism of H. H. Richardson 79 LECTURE FOUR The Social Task
of Architecture 111 FOREWORD The several chapters of this volume
were originally prepared and delivered by the author at Alabama
College in April, 1941, as the second series of Dancy Lectures.
They are now presented to a larger audience in f ulnllment of the
larger purpose to which the Dancy endowment has been dedicated
namely, to foster the search for meanings in the various records of
South ern culture, especially as that culture is related to the
national development. To this quest Lewis Mumford in his Dancy
lectures has made a contribution of rare integrity and insight.
Speaking with dispassionate eloquence, he has added grace and
dignity to scholarship, and, projecting his philosophy of
architecture into the future as well as the past of the South, he
has broadened the base for future criticism in this field and has,
we trust, illumi nated the path of progress. A. W. VAUGHAN CHAIRMAN
FACULTY COMMITTEE ON THE DANCY LECTURES June, 1941 Alabama College
Montevallo, Alabama THE SOUTH IN ARCHITECTURE LECTURE ONE THE BASIS
FOR AMERICAN FORM Only a very great desire to know more intimately
the life and culture of the South could have tempted me to accept
the invitation to visit this college and engage in discourse on a
Southern theme. For I must tell you frankly that I come more as a
student than as a teacher, and though the main subject of these
lectures, inaccordance with the stipulations of the Dancy bequest,
is the work and influence of two great Southern architects, what I
have to say about them will necessarily lack some of that
understanding which only a native Southerner, or one who had long
immersed himself in the life of the South, could give. I can make
no pretensions to such intimacy and I had rather show myself openly
ignorant of matters that may be a commonplace to you, than to
acquire too cheaply the sort of knowledge which guidebooks and
handbooks may give. When I ex plained my limitations and expressed
doubts about them to Dr. Vaughan, he was kind enough to treat 3 THE
SOUTH IN ARCHITECTURE them almost as virtues and this alone gives
me the courage to deal with Jefferson and Richardson with the
perspective and the point of view of an outsider, one who is more
conscious of their influence on the East and North and West of his
country than upon the region that gave birth to them. And, I must
confess, only a special honor like this invitation to give the
Dancy Lectures could have per suaded me to turn aside from the
immediate crisis of the day to prepare the present series. There
have heen times during the past few months when I felt that I must
apologize to myself, if not to this audi ence, for undertaking to
divert their thoughts, even for a few brief hours, from the
disasters which now impend over the entire world disasters whose
scope is so vast and whose ultimate results may be so tragic to the
human race at large, that few of us, even the most far-sighted,
even the most vigilant, have fully taken them in. Though we
Americans have voted bil lions of dollars for armament and aid in a
sort of stunned resignation, we are farfrom understanding the
lessons of the last few years, and our leaders have not yet shown
themselves ready to act with the boldness and decision that these
times need. We un derstand as little as the Scandinavian nations
under 4
"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 Internet even appeared on our periphery.
Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of
culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and
traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern
technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the
Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral,
economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we
used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal
parts powerful history and polemic criticism, "Technics and
Civilization "was the first comprehensive attempt in English to
portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand
years--and to predict the pull the technological still holds over
us today.
" ""The questions posed in the first paragraph of "Technics and
Civilization "still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of
a century after they were written."--"Journal of Technology and
Culture"
Lewis Mumford - architectural critic, theorist of technology,
urbanologist, city planner, cultural critic, historian, biographer,
and philosopher - was the author of more than thirty influential
books, many of which expounded his views on the perils of urban
sprawl and a society obsessed with "technics." 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.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
Contributing Authors Include Margaret Mead, Sterling Tracy, Bernard
W. Dempsey, And Others. A Symposium By Thirty-Five Economists,
Sociologists, And Statesmen.
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