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1 de feb. de 1990 · Lewis Mumford, filósofo, crítico literario, historiador, urbanista y ensayista, falleció el pasado viernes en su residencia de Nueva York, a los 94 añ
While all the books draw attention to men and women often forgotten but worth knowing about, Mumford is conspicuous for brilliance and charisma in the battle to reconcile urban growth with healthy environments and communities. His arsenal of values, shared by many supporters past and present, supplied articulate standards for change.
The Myth of the Machine is a two-volume book by Lewis Mumford that takes an in-depth look at the forces that have shaped modern technology since prehistoric times. The first volume, Technics and Human Development, was published in 1967, followed by the second volume, The Pentagon of Power, in 1970.Mumford shows the parallel developments between human tools and social organization mainly ...
Born in Flushing on October 19, 1895, Mumford lived much of his life in New York. His first book, The Story of Utopias, was published in 1922, and his last book, his autobiography Sketches from Life, was published sixty years later in 1982. He was architectural critic for The New Yorker magazine for over thirty years, and his 1961 book, The ...
Lewis Mumford, född 19 oktober 1895 i Flushing i Queens, New York, död 26 januari 1990 i Amenia, New York, var en amerikansk sociolog och filosof.. Biografi. Mumford skrev ett stort antal kulturkritiska studier. I boken Stadskultur tecknade han den västerländska stadens utveckling från de medeltida stadsbildningarna till den moderna "själlösa" industristaden, som han menade ...
El primero de ellos es un clásico, y fue compuesto por Lewis Mumford, sin duda uno de los grandes críticos de arquitectura del siglo XX, pese al olvido parcial que, sobre todo en España, ha sufrido en las últimas décadas su obra. La ciudad en la historia, publicado por primera vez en español gracias a la joven editorial Pepitas de ...
Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) was one of the foremost American intellectuals of the twentieth century. The Lewis Mumford Papers and associated collections document Mumford's work as scholar, critic, and teacher, as well as his personal life.
