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Lewis Mumford
Author profile
born
October 19, 1895
in The United States
died
January 26, 1990
gender
male
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
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7 editions
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Technics & Civilization
4.30 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Myth of the Machine : Technics and Human Development
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Pentagon Of Power: The Myth Of The Machine, Vol. II
by Lewis Mumford, Gina Maccoby Literary Agency 4.44 avg rating — 39 ratings
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1970
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The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America, 1865-1895
3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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1971
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The Culture of Cities (Book 2)
4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings
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published
1938
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Sticks and Stones
3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings
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published
1924
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Highway and the City
4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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published
1963
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The Story of Utopias
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1962
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The Conduct of Life
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1960
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“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”
― Lewis Mumford
― Lewis Mumford
“Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. ”
― Lewis Mumford
― Lewis Mumford
“This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid. It is a world where the great masses of people, unable to have direct contact with more satisfying means of living, take life vicariously, as readers, spectators, passive observers: a world where people watch shadow-heroes and heroines in order to forget their own clumsiness or coldness in love, where they behold brutal men crushing out life in a strike riot, a wrestling ring or a military assault, while they lack the nerve even to resist the petty tyranny of their immediate boss: where they hysterically cheer the flag of their political state, and in their neighborhood, their trades union, their church, fail to perform the most elementary duties of citizenship.
Living thus, year in and year out, at second hand, remote from the nature that is outside them and no less remote from the nature within, handicapped as lovers and as parents by the routine of the metropolis and by the constant specter of insecurity and death that hovers over its bold towers and shadowed streets - living thus the mass of inhabitants remain in a state bordering on the pathological. They become victims of phantasms, fears, obsessions, which bind them to ancestral patterns of behavior.”
― Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities
Living thus, year in and year out, at second hand, remote from the nature that is outside them and no less remote from the nature within, handicapped as lovers and as parents by the routine of the metropolis and by the constant specter of insecurity and death that hovers over its bold towers and shadowed streets - living thus the mass of inhabitants remain in a state bordering on the pathological. They become victims of phantasms, fears, obsessions, which bind them to ancestral patterns of behavior.”
― Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities
