A Tribute to Lewis Mumford, 1979-1982: An Inventory

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A Tribute to Lewis Mumford, 1979-1982: An Inventory

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Organizational files, including invitations, correspondence, photographs and the texts of tributes to Lewis Mumford, assembled by Charles M. Haar and Jerold S. Kayden. Haar and Kayden were organizers of the events celebrating Mumford as the first recipient of The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Award.

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Special Collections, Frances Loeb Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

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Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) was a notable and prolific writer and critic, best-known for his studies of urban life, architectural history, and the effects of technological development on human societies and cultures. Mumford was architectural critic for The New Yorker Magazine for over thirty years and was a founding member of the Regional Planning Association of America. Mumford’s work as a journalist was supplemented by numerous books, including The Brown Decades, The Myth of the Machine and The...