Urban Prospect [Hardcover]

Lewis Mumford (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc (June 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0844661147
• ISBN-13: 978-0844661148
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,883,247 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Urban Prospect, January 13, 2003

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This review is from: Urban Prospect (Hardcover)

"In this magnificent book Mumford brings us in contact with the nature of life in the city of the fifties and sixties in America, as a mere product of previous theories in urban planning, and policies of a country like the United States of America.
He discusses many urban issues, and shows his disagreement with the situation that the irresponsible city planners and politicians have chosen for the American city before.
Lewis Mumford was born and raised in New York, and carried many of his childhood dreams and thoughts, which were developed in the wilderness of the neighborhoods he lived in, and the social life he experienced with his family and loved ones. When, finally, all of his memories were chattered along the city motorways, and its lost sense of place and human scale.
In the Urban Prospect of 1968, Mumford opens our eyes on the great myth of technology and advance we are fooling ourselves to be living in, yet ignoring, and sadly forgetting that above all we are humans.

In the first six chapters, Lewis Mumford discusses issues of humanitarian and sociological nature, from an observer's point of view. In chapters from seven till fourteen, he discusses more specialized issues relating more to his thoughts and ideologies on urban and regional planning. Where he defends his ideas, and criticizes those of opposing nature."