| Description |
xii, 450 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-431) and index. |
| Contents |
Mumford's modern world / Thomas P. and Agatha C. Hughes -- Mumford in historiographical context / Arthur P. Molella -- Lewis Mumford as a historian of technology in Technics and civilization / Rosalind Williams -- Lewis Mumford, Benton MacKaye, and the regional vision / John L. Thomas -- Mumford's alternatives to the megamachine : critical utopianism, regionalism, and decentralization / Howard P. Segal -- Politics of regional development : Lewis Mumford and Howard W. Odum / Allen Tullos -- Transformation of social theory / Eugene Rochberg-Halton -- Myth of the machine : I. technics and human development / Donald L. Miller -- Lewis Mumford : prophet of organicism / Leo Marx -- Visualized machine age or : Mumford and the European avant-garde / Stanislaus Von Moos. |
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Inner and outer : the axiology of Lewis Mumford / Charles Molesworth -- Designing global harmony : Lewis Mumford and the United Nations headquarters / Lawrence J. Vale -- Perils of personality : Lewis Mumford and politics after liberalism / Casey Blake -- Lewis Mumford, John Dewey, and the "pragmatic acquiescence" / Robert Westbrook -- Tragedy, responsibility, and the American intellectual, 1925-1950 / Richard Wightman Fox -- Prophet of our discontent : Lewis Mumford confronts the bomb / Everett Mendelsohn -- Faith, hope, not much charity : the optimistic epistemology of Lewis Mumford / Michael Zuckerman. |
| Subject |
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990 -- Views on technology and civilization.
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Technology and civilization.
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Technology -- Social aspects.
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Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Hughes, Thomas Parke.
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Hughes, Agatha C.
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| ISBN |
019506173X (alk. paper) |
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