Roots of Contemporary American Architecture by Lewis Mumford

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Lewis Mumford (1895-1979) was the author of numerous important books on American culture, technology, architecture, and urban life, including Technics and Civilization (1934); The Culture of Cities (1938); The City in History (1961); Myth of the Machine I: Technics and Human Development (1967); and Myth of the Machine II: Pentagon of Power (1970).Casey Nelson Blake is professor of history and American studies at Columbia University and the author of Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford.
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ISBN 13 9780486220727
ISBN 10 0486220729
Title Roots of Contemporary American Architecture
Author Lewis Mumford
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Dover Publications Inc.
Year published 1972-12-31
Number of pages 452
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