New Releases by Lewis Mumford

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A collection of essays by the respected social commentator on some problems faced by cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Paris, on the architecture of Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and Wright, and on city and highway planning.

A collection of twenty-six essays from the New Yorker''s "Sky Line" column.

Buried renaissance of Root, Sullivan, Roebling, W. Homer, Eakins, Ryder, others. 12 illustrations.

"In this distinguished volume, Lewis Mumford discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the re-integration of modern civilization"--Back cover.

Geddes Mumford was born in New York in 1925 and was killed in Italy in 1944. Lewis Mumford''s narrative of his son''s nineteen years may be considered a memorial not to one boy only but to all the others as well, who, with their gifts and their promise, went down to darkness in the last -- must we say latest? -- war.

A study of the development of the personality and the community.