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Some Observations on Lewis Mumford’s “The City in History”

Author: David Riesman (Harvard University)

  • Some Observations on Lewis Mumford’s “The City in History”

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    Some Observations on Lewis Mumford’s “The City in History”

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Abstract

For a number of years I have not had any time to undertake book reviews but I feel so keenly the importance and excitement of Mumford's work, and my own personal debt to that work, that I wanted to contribute to this symposium even if I could not begin to do justice to the task. What follows are my only slightly modified notes made on reading selected chapters of the book-notes which I had hoped to have time to sift and revise for a review. I hope I can give some flavor of the book and of its author and invite readers into the corpus of Mumford’s work on their own.

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Published on
1962-01-01