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Donskis, Leonidas. "Lewis Mumford." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 8, no. 1 (1996): 49–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis199681/24.

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Lewis Mumford's discursive map, uncovering the trajectories of modem consciousness and Western social philosophy, dates back to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and the great tradition of American Romanticism However, Mumford's discursive map of the idea of the city cannot be reduced to architecture and city planning alone. His world of ideas draws on such thinkers and concepts as Ebenezer Howard's Garden City, Benton MacKaye's Eutopian ideas, Patrick Geddes' regional planning, and Frank Lloyd Wright's organic architecture (Broadacre City), anticipated by Louis Henri Sullivan. Mumford's theoretical constructions also reflect the worldviews of Simmel, Tönnies, Spengler, and Toynbee, as well as other influential social theories of the last two centuries, Mumford was apparently the first among twentieth-century intellectuals to grasp that human creation, interaction, self-fulfillment, and the search for perfectibility all take place in the city.

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Burrows, Brian. "Lewis Mumford: the Lewis Mumford reader." Futures 28, no. 5 (June 1996): 506–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0016-3287(96)89553-x.

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Miller, Donald L. "Lewis Mumford." Journal of Urban History 18, no. 3 (May 1992): 280–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009614429201800302.

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Davis, Allen F. "Lewis Mumford." Journal of Urban History 19, no. 4 (August 1993): 123–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009614429301900407.

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Kovács, Gábor. "City in Modern Cultural Criticism: Lewis Mumford and István Hajnal." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, European and Regional Studies 13, no. 1 (December 1, 2018): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/auseur-2018-0002.

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Abstract The critique of the city is an almost obligatory cliché of the 20thcentury cultural criticism. This paper offers a parallel critical analysis of the conceptions of American ecologist Lewis Mumford and Hungarian historian István Hajnal. They were contemporaries, and their approaches had been inspired by interwar cultural criticism. Mumford did not hate the city: it was, for him, the engine of history, a reservoir of cultural creativeness. The theory of Hajnal, from many aspects, runs parallel with Mumford’s – moreover, the Hungarian historian gives a detailed theory on the types of European city. What connects them is an ecological approach.

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Szymański, Kamil. "Lewis Mumford criticism of technical culture." Kultura i Wartości 21 (August 29, 2017): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/kw.2017.21.61.

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Molella, Arthur P., and Donald L. Miller. "The Lewis Mumford Reader." Technology and Culture 30, no. 1 (January 1989): 128. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105437.

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Bender, Thomas, Thomas P. Hughes, and Agatha C. Hughes. "Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual." Technology and Culture 33, no. 2 (April 1992): 388. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105891.

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Hughes, Thomas, and Donald Miller. "Lewis Mumford: A Life." Technology and Culture 31, no. 4 (October 1990): 913. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105943.

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Thomas, John L. "Lewis Mumford: Regionalist Historian." Reviews in American History 16, no. 1 (March 1988): 158. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2702081.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Lewis Mumford"

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Li, Shuxue. "Lewis Mumford : critic of culture and civilization." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438250.

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Ruiz, Ordóñez Yolanda. "Lewis Mumford: una interpretación antropológica de la técnica." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/10453.

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Lewis Mumford realiza un estudio tecnológico de las aportaciones más significativas con la finalidad de lograr una convivencia entre la cultura tecnocientífica y la humanística. En este sentido, él parte de una concepción humanística de la tecnología, donde el ser humano es el que permite y dirige cualquier tipo de reflexión sobre la técnica. Para llevar a cabo esta tarea Mumford recurre a la historia estudiando en ella la evolución de los conceptos de ciencia, tecnología y ser humano. Asimismo es de destacar por una parte, su análisis del ser humano y los valores, y por otra, el análisis crítico de la máquina, donde refleja la importancia de los impactos en contraste con los valores humanos. Mumford se sirve de ambos análisis para constatar la interdependencia existente entre ser humano y máquina, las reacciones sociales y culturales de la época y la afirmación de que la sociedad actual, dominada por la máquina, niega lo vivo y lo orgánico. Por esta razón, él propone reemplazar el mito de la máquina por un nuevo mito de la vida, constituido por una perspectiva orgánica que entienda al ser humano como homo sapiens constructor de su mente desde el cual es posible el desarrollo de tecnologías democráticas. Este paradigma exige dirigir la política y economía hacia una perspectiva biotécnica, la sociedad hacia acciones cooperativas y racionales, la máquina hacia el equilibrio entre ser humano y naturaleza y hacia la supervivencia humana, y las perspectivas arquitectónicas e ingenieriles hacia la unión entre lo estético, lo mecánico y lo humano, todo ello teniendo presente la trascendencia de la comunicación simbólica externa y estética de la humana. Sólo incidiendo en estos aspectos es posible, según Mumford, llegar al mundo utópico denominado Solo Mundo, cuyo eje central es la implantación de un equilibrio dinámico orgánico.

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Castle, Jane School of Architecture UNSW. "Vernacular, regional and modern- Lewis Mumford???s bay region style and the architecture of William Wurster." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Architecture, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/26245.

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This thesis examines aspects of the work of American writer and social critic, Lewis Mumford, and the domestic buildings of architect William Wurster. It reveals parallels in their careers, particularly evident in an Arts and Crafts influence and the regional emphasis both men combined with an otherwise overtly Modernist outlook. Several chapters are devoted to the background of, and influences on, Mumford???s regionalism and Wurster???s architecture. Mumford, a spiritual descendent of John Ruskin, admired Wurster???s work for its reflection of his own regionalist ideas, which are traced to Arts and Crafts figures Patrick Geddes, William Morris, William Lethaby and Ruskin. These figures are important to this study, firstly because the influence of their philosophical perspective allowed Mumford, almost uniquely, to position himself as a spokesman for both Romanticism and Modernism with equal validity, and secondly because of their influence upon early Californian architects such as Bernard Maybeck, and subsequently upon Wurster and his colleagues. Throughout the thesis, an important architectural distinction is highlighted between regional Modernism and the International Style. This distinction polarised the American architectural community after Mumford published an article in 1947 suggesting that the ???Bay Region Style??? represented a regionally appropriate alternative to the abstract formulas of International Style architecture and nominated Wurster as its most significant representative. Wurster???s regional Modernism was distinct from the bulk of American Modernism because of its regional influences and its indebtedness to vernacular forms, apparent in buildings such as his Gregory Farmhouse. In 1948, Henry-Russel Hitchcock organised a symposium at New York???s Museum of Modern Art to refute Mumford???s article. Its participants acrimoniously rejected a regionalist alternative to the International Style, and architectural historians have suggested that authentic regional development in the Bay Region largely ceased because of such adverse theoretical and academic scrutiny. After examining the influences on Mumford and Wurster, the thesis concludes that twentieth century regional architectural development in the San Francisco Bay Region has influenced subsequent Western domestic architecture. Wurster suggested that architects should employ the regional and vernacular rather than emulate historical styles or follow theoretical models in their buildings and Mumford, upon whose work Critical Regionalism was later founded, is central to any understanding of the importance of the vernacular, regional and historical in modern architecture.

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"The Soft Megamachine: Lewis Mumford's Metaphor of Technological Society and Implications for (participatory) Technology Assessment." Doctoral diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.27453.

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abstract: This dissertation explores the megamachine, a prominent metaphor in American humanist and philosopher of technology, Lewis Mumford's Myth of the Machine series. The term refers critically to dynamic, regimented human capacities that drive scientific and technical innovation in society. Mumford's view of the nature of collectives focuses on qualities and patterns that emerge from the behavior of groups, societies, systems, and ecologies. It is my aim to reenergize key concepts about collective capacities drawn from Lewis Mumford's critique of historical and modern sociotechnical arrangements. I investigate the possibility of accessing those capacities through improved design for Technology Assessment (TA), formal practices that engage experts and lay citizens in the evaluation of complex scientific and technical issues. I analyze the components of Mumford's megamachine and align key concerns in two pivotal works that characterize the impact of collective capacities on society: Bruno Latour's Pasteurization of France (1988) and Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power (1962). As I create a model of collective capacities in the sociotechnical according to the parameters of Mumford's megamachine, I rehabilitate two established ideas about the behavior of crowds and about the undue influence of technological systems on human behavior. I depart from Mumford's tactics and those of Canetti and Latour and propose a novel focus for STS on "sociotechnical crowds" as a meaningful unit of social measure. I make clear that Mumford's critique of the sociotechnical status quo still informs the conditions for innovation today. Using mixed mode qualitative methods in two types of empirical field studies, I then investigate how a focus on the characteristics and components of collective human capacities in sociotechnical systems can affect the design and performance of TA. I propose a new model of TA, Emergent Technology Assessment (ETA), which includes greater public participation and recognizes the interrelationship among experience, affect and the material in mediating the innovation process. The resulting model -- the "soft" megamachine --introduces new strategies to build capacity for responsible innovation in society.
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Doctoral Dissertation Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology 2014

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Cuthbert, Nancy Marie. "George Tsutakawa's fountain sculptures of the 1960s: fluidity and balance in postwar public art." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4142.

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Between 1960 and 1992, American artist George Tsutakawa (1910 – 1997) created more than sixty fountain sculptures for publicly accessible sites in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. The vast majority were made by shaping sheet bronze into geometric and organically inspired abstract forms, often arranged around a vertical axis. Though postwar modernist artistic production and the issues it raises have been widely interrogated since the 1970s, and public art has been a major area of study since about 1980, Tsutakawa's fountains present a major intervention in North America's urban fabric that is not well-documented and remains almost completely untheorized. In addition to playing a key role in Seattle's development as an internationally recognized leader in public art, my dissertation argues that these works provide early evidence of a linked concern with nature and spirituality that has come to be understood as characteristic of the Pacific Northwest. Tsutakawa was born in Seattle, but raised and educated primarily in Japan prior to training as an artist at the University of Washington, then teaching in UW's Schools of Art and Architecture. His complicated personal history, which in World War II included being drafted into the U.S. army, while family members were interned and their property confiscated, led art historian Gervais Reed to declare that Tsutakawa was aligned with neither Japan nor America – that he and his art existed somewhere in-between. There is much truth in Reed's statement; however, artistically, such dualistic assessments deny the rich interplay of cultural allusions in Tsutakawa's fountains. Major inspirations included the Cubist sculpture of Alexander Archipenko, Himalayan stone cairns, Japanese heraldic emblems, First Nations carvings, and Bauhaus theory. Focusing on the early commissions, completed during the 1960s, my study examines the artist's debts to intercultural networks of artistic exchange – between North America, Asia, and Europe – operative in the early and mid-twentieth century, and in some cases before. I argue that, with his fountain sculptures, this Japanese American artist sought to integrate and balance such binaries as nature/culture, intuition/reason, and spiritual/material, which have long served to support the construction of East and West as opposed conceptual categories.
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Books on the topic "Lewis Mumford"

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Hughes, Thomas Parke. Recalling Lewis Mumford. Philadelphia: Dept. of City and Regional Planning, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1990.

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Hughes, Thomas Parke. Lewis Mumford: Public intellectual. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

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Mumford, Lewis. The Lewis Mumford reader. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.

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Lewis Mumford, a life. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992.

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C, Hughes Agatha, ed. Lewis Mumford: Public intellectual. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

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Hughes, Thomas P. Lewis Mumford: Public intellectual. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

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Hughes, Thomas P. Lewis Mumford : public intellectual. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

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Lewis Mumford, a Life. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989.

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Mumford, Lewis. The Lewis Mumford reader. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.

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Lewis Mumford, a life. New York: Grove Press, 2002.

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Book chapters on the topic "Lewis Mumford"

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Fortner, Robert S. "Lewis Mumford." In The Handbook of Media and Mass Communication Theory, 210–24. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118591178.ch12.

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Bendix, John. "Mumford, Lewis." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_12198-1.

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Henricks, Thomas S. "Lewis Mumford." In Anatomies of Modern Discontent, 79–83. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003082255-17.

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Koetsier, Teun. "Lewis Mumford Revisited." In History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 171–81. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31184-5_16.

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Bendix, John. "Mumford, Lewis: The City in History." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–2. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_15764-1.

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Waldmann, Peter, and John Bendix. "Mumford, Lewis: The Culture of Cities." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–2. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_12199-1.

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van Munster, Rens, and Casper Sylvest. "Modernity, Technology and Global Security: A Conversation with Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)." In The Return of the Theorists, 218–26. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137516459_26.

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Schubert, Cornelius. "Technik, Politik und Gesellschaft: William F. Ogburn, Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner und Thomas P. Hughes." In Schlüsselwerke der Science & Technology Studies, 85–95. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-19455-4_7.

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Meller, Helen. "Some Reflections on the Concept of Megalopolis and its Use by Patrick Geddes and Lewis Mumford." In Megalopolis: The Giant City in History, 116–29. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23051-8_9.

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"Lewis Mumford." In The American Radical, 257–64. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203406359-37.

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Conference papers on the topic "Lewis Mumford"

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Pateva, Radost. "Philosophical foundations of technological determinism: Social importance of machine and technology." In 8th International e-Conference on Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences. Center for Open Access in Science, Belgrade, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.32591/coas.e-conf.08.20213p.

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This article examines the social-philosophy concepts in the works of Lewis Mumford, mainly in his Technics and Civilization (Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, Year: 1934), and Jacques Ellul, mainly in his The Technological System (1980, The Continuum Publishing Corporation, originally published as Le Système technicien by Calmann-Lévy Copyright Calmann-Lévy, 1977). The first part of the article discusses Louis Mumford's concept of the Machine as a product of the historical, cultural and axiological achievements of Western civilization. The second part of the article focuses on Jacques Ellul’s reflections on the differences between the classical industrial age and the “third wave” of technology. Both parts concern themselves with the tremendous social changes brought about by the technological breakthroughs. Finally, in the form of an extended conclusion, the article offers a comparison of the social effects of technological progress the way both authors see them.

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