Lewis Mumford
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Eminent cultural critic Lewis Mumford's first book, The Story of Utopias, is a fascinating survey of the development of the concept of "utopia." Mumford examines the major utopias-discussing Plato's Republic and Thomas More's Utopia, among others-concluding with a look at the prospects for utopia as it relates to the realities of urban planning.
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A visionary survey of urbanism from the Middle Ages to the late 1930s, with a new introduction by Thomas Fisher Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford-a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker-The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to rebuild the urban world on a sounder human foundation. First published in 1938, this radical investigation into the human...
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En este hermoso y valioso volumen, Lewis Mumford hace balance crítico del pensamiento utópico: su historia, sus fundamentos básicos, sus aportaciones positivas, sus cargas negativas y sus debilidades.
Releyendo las utopías más conocidas e influyentes y los mitos sociales que han desempeñado un papel de primer orden en Occidente, y contrastándolos con las utopías sociales parciales todavía recientes, Mumford valora el impacto que todas estas...