Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Mumford, Lewis
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990
Other form(s) of name
- Lewis Mumford
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1895-1990
History
Letters from Mumford are addressed from Amenia, New York, but Merton mentions a letter of his written from London. Mumford was a well known architectural critic, urban planner, and commentator of the effects of modern technology on human development. Merton mentions reading some of Mumford's articles and his books «The Myth of the Machine» and «Technics and Civilization».