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'Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990'

Lewis Mumford


Letters from Mumford are addressed from Amenia, New York, but Merton mentions a letter of his written from London. Mumford was a well known architectural critic, urban planner, and commentator of the effects of modern technology on human development. Merton mentions reading some of Mumford's articles and his books The Myth of the Machine and Technics and Civilization.


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1. Crossreference ; See:  Myth and machine : letter to the editor -->
2. Crossreference ; See:  City in history, The; by Lewis Mumford. Notes. -->

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