Naturalism!

Geddes, Mumford's primary inspiration (to the point that he named his son "Geddes") was a biologist who wrote more or less one...

Ok, there's tons of useful stuff in this little book, although perhaps not quite as much as I'd hoped. Some highlights from Anne Fi...

Henry Georeg's giant book, which I didn't read in its entirety, isn't super-full of useful stuff, but his thesis is definitely w...

Howard's Garden Cities of Tomorrow wasn't that interesting, perhaps because Mumford loves it so much that he'd already told me a...

The final sections of Mumford's "The City in History" seemed slightly less useful, perhaps as he advanced beyond the time peri...

Mumford's description of "Coketown" gave me a series of ideas about writing about Chicago. The first and most important of th...

There are a number of interesting things to be gleaned from the roughly 50 pages of Mumford I read today, although none of it is necessarily...