Topic: Lewis Mumford
The going is the goal," a pragmatic philosopher said; past and future had both been swallowed in the void of a meaningless now. Such are still the...
Mumford, Lewis (1895-1990), a United States historian and social critic. Many of his writings deal with the relation between human beings and their...
The Civil War separated the two major fields of interpretation about the American City into the paradox of the city as a symbol of good and the city as a symbol of evil. In his essay, "The Harlem Renaissance City: Its Multi-Illusionary ...
Green design was a pervasive topic in boardrooms and living rooms in 2007, particularly as the costs of maintaining the status quo became apparent. Influential pioneers who supported a more integrative mission during the 1960s and early '70s included architectural critic and ...
In the early 21st century the building of shelter (in all its forms) consumed more than half of the world's resources-translating into 16 percent of the Earth's freshwater resources, 30-40 percent of all energy supplies, and 50 percent by weight ...
In Competition No. 2374 you were invited to supply ten pieces of useless information to clutter our minds.For those with an appetite for loony facts Noel Botham's The World's Greatest Book of Useless Information (John Blake) can be prescribed ...
Environmental advocacy, as an organized social force in the U.S., gained its first serious momentum as part of the youth movement of the 1960s. Influential pioneers who supported a more integrative mission during the 1960s and early '70s included architectural critic ...
