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Author : Lewis Mumford
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Technology and civilization
ISBN : 9780151639731
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Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780231121057
Lewis Mumford 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. This text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture.
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0226550273
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
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Technology and civilization
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Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Technological civilization
ISBN : 9780156623414
Bibilography, v. 2, p. 439-469.
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Technology and civilization
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Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780156180351
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.
Author : Lewis Mumford
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Karrie Jacobs
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2007-05-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1440684529
A home of one’s own has always been a cornerstone of the American dream, fulfilling like nothing else the desire for comfort, financial security, independence, and with a little luck, even a touch of distinctive character, or even beauty. But what we have come to regard as almost a national birthright has recently begun to elude more and more prospective homebuyers. Where housing is concerned, affordable and well-crafted rarely exist together. Or do they? For years, founding editor-in-chief of Dwell magazine and noted architecture and design critic Karrie Jacobs had been confronting this question both professionally and personally. Finally, she decided to see for herself whether it was possible to build the home of her own dreams for a reasonable sum. The Perfect $100,000 House is the story of that quest, a search that takes her from a two-week crash course in housebuilding in Vermont to a road trip of some 14,000 miles. In the course of her journey Jacobs encounters a group of intrepid and visionary architects and builders working to revolutionize the way Americans thinks about homes, about construction techniques, and about the very idea of community. By her trip’s end Jacobs, has not only had a practical and sobering education in the economics, aesthetics, and politics of homebuilding, but has been spurred to challenge her own deeply held beliefs about what constitutes an ideal home. The Perfect $100,000 House is a compelling and inspiring demonstration that we can live in homes that are sensible, modest, and beautiful.
Author : Lewis Mumford
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Page : 274 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Architecture
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