Some Observations on Lewis Mumford’s “The City in History”
Publication Title
Washington University Law Quarterly
Abstract
For a number of years I have not had any time to undertake book reviews but I feel so keenly the importance and excitement of Mumford's work, and my own personal debt to that work, that I wanted to contribute to this symposium even if I could not begin to do justice to the task. What follows are my only slightly modified notes made on reading selected chapters of the book-notes which I had hoped to have time to sift and revise for a review. I hope I can give some flavor of the book and of its author and invite readers into the corpus of Mumford’s work on their own.
Recommended Citation
David Riesman,
Some Observations on Lewis Mumford’s “The City in History”,
1962 Wash. U. L. Q. 288
(1962).
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