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	Lewis Mumford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mumford was born in Flushing, New York, and studied at Stuyvesant High School, the City College of New York and the New School for Social Research, yet never earned a degree.
		Mumford was involved in numerous research positions and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.
		Mumford explains that the thousands of maimed and dead each year as a result of automobile accidents are a "ritual sacrifice" the American society makes because of its extreme reliance on highway transport.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lewis_Mumford (1184 words)

	Lewis Mumford: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mumford was also a contemporary and friend of Fred Osborne and Vannevar Bush (United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)).
		Mumford also discusses large hierarchical (additional info and facts about hierarchical) organizations in terms of the megamachine, a machine (Any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks) using humans as its components.
		While pessimistic in tone, Mumford argues that urban planning (The branch of architecture dealing with the design and organization of urban space and activities) should emphasize an organic (A fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter) relationship between people and their living spaces.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/lewis_mumford.htm (1027 words)

	Encyclopedia: Lewis Mumford
		Lewis felt that modern scholarship depended too much upon interpretation of the flotsam and jetsam of a writer's life; there was also the practical consideration of the sheer bulk of the collection.
		Nonetheless, the Lewis Mumford Papers, in all their great quantity, do not contain relatively less significant research materials such as cancelled checks and receipts for household expenses: they represent an archive of philosophical and social investigation and commentary, not a record of the minutia of a family's daily life.
		Mumford was a prolific and regular correspondent, for whom letters were the primary means of communicating with his friends and colleagues throughout his career.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lewis_Mumford (571 words)

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		By the time Lewis Mumford, one of the great minds of the twentieth century, passed away in 1990, he had contributed in substantial and creative ways to a host of intellectual disciplines, including architecture, urban studies, literature, history, sociology, economics, political science, archaeology, geography, psychology, and anthropology.
		Mumford, like the older Geddes, focused intense intellectual energy on the role of the city, but also, like his Scottish mentor, proved to be very much a generalist.
		Mumford believed, for example, that Ebenezer Howard’s vision of the Garden City could be implemented on a regional basis by utilizing such technological innovations as the automobile, the radio, and steel-based construction.
	www.uky.edu /Classes/PS/776/Projects/Mumford/mumford.html (2521 words)

	Amazon.com: The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects: Books: Lewis Mumford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence--from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the modern centers of commerce (as well as dozens of fl-and-white illustrations)--to show how the urban form has changed throughout human civilization.
		Mumford's analysis of the development of western cities since the inception of agriculturally-based sedentary communities is for the most part highly critical of the social and organization manifestations of the cities of the ancient world.
		Mumford is undoubtably a humanist and several times yearns for cities to allow humans to unlock their full creative and biological faculties, followed by a stream of dreamy platitudes that do little to qualify what this kind of feeling or sentiment concretely would entail.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156180359?v=glance (2518 words)

	Mumford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lewis Mumford's contribution to the history of technology is his classic Technics and Civilization (1934).
		Mumford also introduced the concept of the megamachine, which is defined as "rigid, hierarchical social organization" (p.
		Mumford was also optimistic about the future of democracy in a society that had radio and "person-to-person" electronic communication at its disposal (Carey, 1989, p.
	www.regent.edu /acad/schcom/rojc/mdic/mumford.html (210 words)

	City As Community: The Life And Vision Of Lewis Mumford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1931, Mumford began a long tenure at The New Yorker, writing art and architecture criticism, the latter under the heading of “The Sky Line.” This was perhaps the most influential column of its kind in the United States, with an audience composed of professionals and nonprofessionals alike.
		Although Mumford was not himself an architect or planner, he became the spokesman for the Regional Planning Association of America, an informal group of architects, planners, economists and writers who came to prominence during the 1920s and 1930s.
		Yet, Mumford ultimately believed in humanity’s ability to renew itself, and it is not surprising that his ideas of the 1960s found favor with a younger generation of readers looking to change the world for the better.
	web.odu.edu /ao/instadv/quest/CityAsCommunity.html (1525 words)

	Penn Special Collections-Lewis Mumford Papers 3
		The Lewis Mumford Papers primarily document Mumford's professional life as writer, critic, and teacher over a period of approximately seventy years, while at the same time, they offer a rare and intimate glimpse of this extremely private man. Mumford's prolific literary output and extensive correspondence predominate in the 197 boxes that comprise the Papers.
		Lewis and Sophia Mumford began to deposit their papers at the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, when Robert E. Spiller, a Penn faculty member, was editing The Van Wyck Brooks-Lewis Mumford Letters.
		In general, the Mumfords saved all letters that were written to them and all drafts and notes related to Lewis's writings.
	www.library.upenn.edu /collections/rbm/regis/mumford/mumford_m3.html (1646 words)

	Amazon.com: The Culture of Cities: Books: Lewis Mumford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lewis Mumford's The Culture of Cities is anything but what can legitimately be expected from a typical book about urban planning, nor does it read like the average history book either.
		Mumford points out how residents of cities in the Middle Ages enjoyed freedoms not possessed by land-bound peasants, and how life in the cities of those times did not entail exile from natural surroundings.
		Mumford's organization of the volume barely conceals a strong underlying message- -that cities in the distant past were pretty good, then they got worse, and now (in the late 1930s) they are heading towards Armageddon.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156233010?v=glance (2147 words)

	Lewis Mumford - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 -January 26, 1990) was an American historian of technology (to which Mumford referred as technics) and science, also noted for his study of cities.
		Mumford was born in Flushing, New York, and studied at Stuyvesant High School, the City College of New York and the New School for Social Research.
		Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about Lewis Mumford.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Lewis_Mumford (498 words)

	:Frank Lloyd Wright & Lewis Mumford: Thirty Years of Correspondence Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer & Robert ...
		Frank Lloyd Wright and Lewis Mumford, two pivotal figures in 20th century American architecture and urbanism, were both passionate writers, keenly aware of world events.
		Wright first wrote to Mumford in 1926, when he was in his 50s and already renowned, and Mumford was in his 30s and making his name in cultural criticism.
		Mumford, who focused much of his writing on architecture and urban planning, greatly admired Wright's work as "the exemplar of organic design, built in accordance with the rhythms of modern life"; the two men shared ideas and interests, though Mumford resisted getting too intimate in order to preserve his critical integrity.
	www.arcspace.com /books/Wright/30_y_book.html (693 words)

	Lewis Mumford: A Brief Biography
		Given the range of Mumford’s scholarly work, it is all the more interesting that he did not have a college degree, having had to leave City College of New York after a diagnosis of tuberculosis.
		In 1923 Mumford was a cofounder with Clarence Stein, Benton MacKaye, Henry Wright and others, of the Regional Planning Association of America, which advocated limited-scale development and the region as significant for city planning.
		Mumford's works share a common concern with the ways that modern life as a whole, although providing possibilities for broader expression and development, simultaneously subverts those possibilities and actually ends up tending toward a diminution of purpose.
	www.nd.edu /~ehalton/mumfordbio.html (804 words)

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		Mumford was influenced by the work of Scottish theorist
		Mumford was involved in numerous research positions and received the
		The City in History, Mumford explores the development of urban civilizations.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Lewis_Mumford (774 words)

	Compass Vol. 13 #6, Eastham Article
		Mumford found computers an excuse for not thinking, just one more abdication of human responsibilities to the "myth" that machines could bring about the human millennium.
		Mumford by contrast stands for the sensibility that has won over many of today's most articulate scholars of technology and human values.
		For Mumford, technology was mechanism, and although a culture might benefit from some degree of mechanistic constraint (ritual tabus, for example), the total submission of organism to mechanism was lethal.
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	Ch.4: Lewis Mumford's Organic Worldview
		One possibly legitimate critique of Mumford by contemporary multiculturalists might be an underemphasis on ethnic, class, and gender diversities in portraying American culture and history in general.
		And values do not come ready-made: they are achieved by a resolute attempt to square the facts of one's own experience with the historic patterns formed in the past by those who devoted their whole lives to achieving and expressing values.
		Mumford's lament in 1946 that virtue has become meaningless, "like a dead language to which we have lost the key," resonates with the recent work of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre in his 1981 book After Virtue and subsequent works.
	www.nd.edu /~ehalton/mumford.htm (590 words)

	Lewis Mumford
		Lewis Mumford spent nearly fifty years writing books on a range of topics, including Technology (which he insisted on calling Technics), Architecture, Towns and Cities, and Social Planning.
		Mumford goes on to compare the short time to build a pyramid (under a despotic bureaucracy) with the centuries required for a mediæval cathedral (in a Free city).
		And as the machine itself became, as it were, more active and human, reproducing the organic properties of eye and ear, the human beings who employed the machine as a mode of escape have tended to become more passive and mechanical.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~rxv/books/mumford.htm (1010 words)

	Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: The Politics of Planning
		This book traces the development of Lewis Mumford's ideas and his work as founder of the Regional Planning Association of America (RPAA), and then explores the relevance of Mumford's vision to today's urban and environmental problems.
		The value of Mumford's approach, the author argues, is his attempt to make his ideas speak to America, and to the possibilities for ecological planning inherent in the American civic tradition.
		Mumford proposed regional planning that would shape human life in response to the influences and critical forces of regional ecosystems; recontextualize cities in relation to nature; take advantage of natural economies rather than economies of scale.
	www.guilford.com /cgi-bin/cartscript.cgi?page=pr/luccarel.htm&dir=geo/env&cart_id=290145.31936 (585 words)

	Lewis Mumford -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Mumford was born in Flushing, N.Y., on Oct. 19, 1895.
		English evangelist and writer Catherine Mumford Booth was known as the “Mother of the Salvation Army.” She was the joint founder of the social-service organization with her husband, William.
		Exhibit featuring the 1803 map by Nicholas King and annotated by Meriwether Lewis, on their exploration of the Missouri basin by crossing over the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, presented by the Library of Congress, based in Washington, D.C. Also provides a historical background.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275977?tocId=9275977 (701 words)

	2000 Census Data
		The Lewis Mumford Center will continue to conduct research and analysis of all incoming Census data, as they are released.
		Despite overall increases in incomes and a small decline in poverty, the prosperity of the 90's was not widely shared, particularly in the Northeast and Southern California.
		In fact, children of all groups are being raised in environments where their own group's size is inflated, and where they are under-exposed to children of other racial and ethnic backgrounds.
	mumford1.dyndns.org /cen2000/report.html (1484 words)

	Papers of Lewis Mumford
		Lewis Mumford was born in New York in 1895 and studied at the City College there and at Columbia University.
		Mumford and Geddes corresponded but did not meet as Geddes was working in Palestine and India.
		Geddes saw Mumford as a possible fulltime collaborator and disciple who might take the place of the son he had lost in the First World War.
	www.library.rdg.ac.uk /colls/special/mumford.html (343 words)

	what is lmc
		Urban planner, historian, sociologist, local advocate, and architectural critic Lewis Mumford is recognized as one of the greatest urbanists of the 20th Century.
		Mumford taught at a number of prestigious universities, and served for over 30 years as architectural critic for the New Yorker.
		Among his tremendous achievements, Mumford was instrumental in preparing planning reports for cities and towns from Honolulu to Oxford, England.
	www.albany.edu /mumford/About_us/who_is_lm.html (468 words)

	Lewis Mumford
		The multi-talented Lewis Mumford's long life was marked by work in urban planning, history, political and social commentary.
		Mumford continued his prodigious output well into his later years, producing The Pentagon of Power in 1971.
		Mumford received the National Medal of Arts in 1986.
	www.multied.com /Bio/people/Mumford.html (108 words)

	Lewis Mumford
		Lewis Mumford was born in Flushing, Long Island on 19th October, 1895.
		Mumford worked as a lecturer at the New School for Social Research (1931-35) and was a member of the
		In later years Mumford was awarded The Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964), the National Medal for Literature (1972) and in 1975 became an honorary knight commander of the Order of the British Empire.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAmumfordL.htm (353 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Biotechnology and Liberty in the Writings of Lewis Mumford
		Lewis Mumford was born in 1895 (the same year X-rays were discovered by Roentgen and the Dreyfus affair was another significant "success").
		Mumford started his career in the US Patent Office (overseeing "cement and concrete"), which gave him a first person insight into technological innovation processes.
		It was partly based on the ideas of Oswald Spengler as refined by Alfred Toynbee, and, distilling nearly sixty years of investigation, Lewis Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/12/24/071457.php (2164 words)

	2000 Census Data
		This website was created by Dr. John Logan and a team under his direction, while he was Director of the Lewis Mumford Center at the University at Albany.
		Logan continues this research as a faculty associate of the Mumford Center and as Professor of Sociology at Brown University.
		The button for what others are saying provides links to many of the excellent news stories on segregation that have appeared around the country since March 2001.
	mumford.albany.edu /census (374 words)

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