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Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford's Writings on New York

by Robert Wojtowicz

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Publisher Comments:

Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) is still revered as one of America's leading cultural critics and an international authority on architecture and urbanism.

Review:

"Robert Wojtowicz has done the public a service in republishing these essays and columns [of] one of America's greatest and least appreciated twentieth-century thinkers." -Harper's Magazine

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"Here, at last, is a selection of Mumford's Sky Line pieces from 1931 through 1940, the body of work that made him the prince of America's architecture critics." -New Yorker

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Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) is still revered as one of America's leading cultural critics and an international authority on architecture and urbanism.
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ISBN:
9781568982526
Subtitle:
Lewis Mumford's Writings on New York
Editor:
Wojtowicz, Robert
Editor:
Wojtowicz, Robert
Author:
Mumford, Lewis
Publisher:
Princeton Architectural Press
Subject:
20th century
Subject:
Criticism
Subject:
Architecture
Subject:
U.S. Architecture - General
Subject:
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Subject:
Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York.
Edition Description:
Cloth First Pub
Publication Date:
September 2000
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
279
Dimensions:
9.00x6.01x.81 in. 1.07 lbs.
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