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- W2353687173 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 City In History 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. 1. Lewis Mumford correctly says in the book that he is a generalist, not a specialist; indeed he has not had (or perhaps wanted to have) a full-time academic position. There are generalists faute de mieux, who cannot make the grade in a specialty; there are other generalists, of whom Mumford is one, who transcend the specialties indeed whose legacy is often one of more specialties. Mumford was one of the early rediscoverers of Herman Melville; one of the first to write critically and thoughtfully about founders of American city planning; one of the revivers of Utopian thought, not yet a specialty (just as there are no professors of the future, a category Mumford has helped pioneer); a synthesiser in urban ecology; and now a prophet of arms and the man warning that the combination of nuclear techniques and civilized deracinations may change not only the face of the earth but its very course and possibilities. Mumford is one of those rare men of letters who is not, in C. P. Snow's sense, confined to the literary culture; one of those not so rare social scientists who is a humanist; and one of those rare humanists who knows a good deal about man as a biological and tool-using species and not only about man as a symbol-making and record-keeping one." @default.
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