A concise summary of Lewis Mumford's life, associates, and notability to city and regional planning. A brief review of the book "the City in History" andhow it contributes to planning history and...

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Life of Lewis Mumford
Lewis Mumford (1895-1990), an American social philosopher and architectural critic, looked at civilizations to see if they could create a humane environment. He stressed the need for long-term planning for the environment. Lewis Mumford was born on October 19, 1895, in Flushing, Long Island, New York. Stuyvesant High School was his alma mater until 1912. He attended City College of New York in the evenings for five years but did not obtain a diploma. Instead, he became a student of cities, starting with New York City, where he studied in libraries, theatres, and museums. Later, for the New Yorker magazine, he published a series of "Skyline" pieces that were personal excursions to structures and quarters of the city that showed New Yorkers' hopes and failings in their ongoing act of building and rebuilding (Haëntjens, 2019).
Mumford read Patrick Geddes' articles in 1915, which expressed an organic vision of society, and identified Geddes as his mentor in the years after their meeting in 1923 (Haëntjens, 2019). Mumford began his labor movement career as an investigator for the dress and waist business in 1916. In 1917, he worked as a cement tester for the Bureau of Standards in Pittsburgh. In the United States, he worked as a radio operator. In 1918, the Navy was formed. He became an editor of Dial magazine the following year and then traveled to London in 1920 to serve as interim editor of the Sociological Review (Haëntjens, 2019). When he returned to New York City, he authored The Utopias Story (1922).
Mumford was motivated to take an active part in the...