60 Ergebnisse - Zeige 21 von 40.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Excerpt from The Story of UtopiasIT is a sunny day and I am sitting on the top of a mountain.Until this morning, it had been the mountain of a fairy story that was twenty centuries old.Now, it is a mighty hill and I can feel its warm coat of white reindeer-moss, and if I were willing to stretch out my hand, I could pluck the red berries that are in full bloom.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classi...

Excerpt from Regional Planning in the Pacific Northwest: A MemorandumThe two weeks tour that I made of the coastal portions of the Northwest had the advantage, just because my movements were so rapid, of leaving two distinct images of the landscape. One was of its over powering beauty, the other was of its loneliness. At every point in my journey, from.the mckonz1e River to Puget Sound, there were breath taking landscapes: new the great simpli...

Excerpt from Regional Planning in the Pacific Northwest: A MemorandumThe two weeks tour that I made of the coastal portions of the Northwest had the advantage, just because my movements were so rapid, of leaving two distinct images of the landscape. One was of its over powering beauty, the other was of its loneliness. At every point in my journey, from.the mckonz1e River to Puget Sound, there were breath taking landscapes: new the great simpli...

Excerpt from Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and CivilizationFor a hundred years or so after its settlement, there lived and ¿ourished in America a type Of com munity which was rapidly disappearing in Europe. This community was embodied in villages and towns whose mummified remains even today have a rooted dignity that the most gigantic metropolises do not Often possess. If we would understand the architec ture Of America i...

Excerpt from Sticks and Stones: A Study of American Architecture and CivilizationFor a hundred years or so after its settlement, there lived and ¿ourished in America a type Of com munity which was rapidly disappearing in Europe. This community was embodied in villages and towns whose mummified remains even today have a rooted dignity that the most gigantic metropolises do not Often possess. If we would understand the architec ture Of America i...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Utopia, " dice Lewis Mumford nella prefazione del 1922 a questo libro, "può derivare dalla parola greca 'eutopia', che significa il buon posto, o dall'altra parola greca 'outopia', che significa nessun posto." Ed e lo stesso Mumford a chiarire il contesto intellettuale da cui questo suo lavoro ha tratto origine: "Poco dopo la Prima guerra mondiale, vivevo ancora nel clima di speranza della generazione passata, ma mi rendevo conto che l'entusia...

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

A collection of essays by the respected social commentator on some problems faced by cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Paris, on the architecture of Saarinen, Le Corbusier, and Wright, and on city and highway planning.

Keine Beschreibung.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

?For distinction, entertainment, information, scholarship, and general human interest, Lewis Mumford's The Culture of Cities is one of the most distinguished books of many years.?-Forum