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    <namePart>Mumford, Lewis</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1895-</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1938</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xii, 586 p. ill. ; plates ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION 3 --
CHAPTER I. PROTECTION AND THE MEDIEVAL TOWN 13 --
1: STRIPPING Off the Medieval Myth 13 --
2: The Need of Protection 14 --
3: The “Increase of Population and Wealth” 17 --
4: Lordly Scadders and Medieval New Edens 24 --
5: Domination of the Church 27 --
6: The service of the Guild 29 --
7: Medieval Domesticity 35 --
8: Hygiene and Sanitation 42 --
9: Principles of Medieval Town Planning 51 --
10: Control of Growth and Expansion 58 --
11: The Stage and the Drama 60 --
12: What Overthrew the Medieval City? 64 --
CHAPTER II. COURT, PARADE, AND CAPITAL 73 --
1: The Afterglow of the Middle Ages 73 --
2: Territory and City 78 --
3: Instruments of Coercion 82 --
4: War as City Builder 86 --
5: The Ideology of Power 89 --
6: Movement and the Avenue 94 --
7: The Shopping Parade 98 --
8: The New Divinity 105 --
9: Position of the Palace 108 --
10: Influence of the Palace on the City 111 --
11: Bedroom and Salon 113 --
12: The Muddle of Speculative Overcrowding 120 --
13: The Baroque Plan 124 --
14: Architectural Forms 128 --
15: What Saved the Olympians 135 --
16: Fulfillment and Renewal 139 --
CHAPTER III. THE INSENSATE INDUSTRIAL TOWN 143 --
1: The Displacement of Population 143 --
2: Mechanization and Abbau 149 --
3: The Postulates of Utilitarianism 152 --
4: The Technics of Agglomeration 157 --
5: Factory and Slum 161 --
6: House of Ill Fame 168 --
7: Resistant to Barbarism 173 --
8: The Minimum of Life 176 --
9: Paleotechnic Drama 180 --
10: The Non Plan of the Non City 183 --
11: A Close up of Coketown 190 --
12: The Old Curiosity Shop 198 --
13: The Triumph of Iron 205 --
14: Far from the Madding Crowd 210 --
15: The Woodlanders 218 --
16: Reaction 221 --
CHAPTER IV. RISE AND FALL OF MEGALOPOLIS 223 --
1: The New Coalition 223 --
2: The tentacular Bureaucracy 226 --
3: Shapeless Giantism 233 --
4: Means of Congestion 235 --
5: The Cost of Costiveness 240 --
6: The Blighted Area 245 --
7: The Acceptance of Depletion 248 --
8: Defacement of Nature 252 --
9: The Paper Dream City 255 --
10: The Acquisitiveness of a sick Metropolis 259 --
11: Routine and Relaxation 265 --
12: The Poison of Vicarious Vitality 267 --
13: A Brief Outline of Hell 272 --
14: Phenomena of the End 279 --
15: Cycle of Growth and Decay 283 --
16: Possibilities of Renewal 292 --
17: Signs of Salvage 295 --
CHAPTER V. THE REGIONAL FRAMEWORK OF CIVILIZATION 300 --
1: New Patterns of Life and Thought 300 --
2: The Regional Outlook 304 --
3: The Region as a Geographic Unit 306 --
4: The City as a Geographic Fact 316 --
5: The Earth as Home 322 --
6: The Landscape: A Cultural Resource 331 --
7: The Economic Region 336 --
8: Power as Region Builder 342 --
CHAPTER VI. THE POLITICS OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 348 --
1:Regionalism and Politics 348 --
2: The Process of Regionalization 358 --
3: The Postulates of Regionalism 366 --
4: Regional Planning: A New Task 371 --
5: Survey and Plan as Communal Education 381 --
6: Conditions of Urban Re building 387 --
7: The New Method of City Development Garden City 392 --
CHAPTER VII. SOCIAL BASIS OF THE NEW URBAN ORDER 402 --
1: Architecture as Symbol 402 --
2: Principles of Modern Form Economy 416 --
3: The Role Hygiene 421 --
4: The prolongation of Youth 428 --
5: Bi polar Domesticity 430 --
6: The Death of the Monument 433 --
7: Flexibility and Renewal 440 --
8: The Mission of the Museum 446 --
9: The Undifferentiated Background 448 --
10: Individuation and Socialization 454 --
11: From a Money Economy to Life Economy 458 --
12: Modern Housing by Communities 456 --
13: The School as Community Nucleus 271 --
14: The Social Concept of the City 479 --
15: Contrapuntal Organization 485 --
16: Principles of Urban Order 486 --
PREFATORY NOTE V --
GLOSSARY 495 --
BIBLIOGRAPHY 497 --
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 553 --
INDEX 555 --
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  <tableOfContents>ILLUSTRATIONS :
I.THE MEDIEVAL CITY --
1: Profile and Elevation 20 --
2: Lübeck Medieval Order 21 --
3: Collective Dramas 36 --
4: Institutions and Structures 37 --
II.THE BAROQUE CITY --
5: The Mechanical and the Sensuous 100 --
6: The Courtly Life 101 --
7: Getting and Spending 116 --
8: Paris Cartesian Order 117 --
III. TRANSITIONS --
9: Environment of the Olympians 136 --
10: Dutch Cities: Old and New 137 --
IV. THE INDUSTRIAL TOWN --
11: Coketown Mechanical Order 196 --
12: The Paleotechnic Drama 197 --
13: Romanticism and Humanitarianism 212 --
14: The Promise of Iron and Glass 213 --
V. ELEMENTS OF PLAN --
15: Types of Traditional Plan 236 --
16 and 17: Amsterdam Organic Planning 236 --
VI. THE METROPOLIS --
18: Heart of Empire 260 --
19: Megalopolitan Routine 261 --
20: Dream and Reality 276 --
21: New York Congestion Unlimited 277 --
VII. THE REGIONAL COMPLEX --
22: Outlines for Regional Planning 307 --
23: Agents of Regional Development 324 --
24: Tennessee Valley 325 --
VIII. BIOTECHNIC CIVILIZATION --
25: New Source of Form 356 --
26: Monuments versus Buildings 357 --
27: The New Vernacular 372 --
28: Urban Rehabilitation 373 --
IX. CITY AND REGION --
Functional Zoning 436 --
30: New Urban Types 437 --
31: Greenbelt Towns 452 --
32: Frankfurt Römerstadt: Biotechnic Order 453 --
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">[by] Lewis Mumford.</note>
  <note>Include index.</note>
  <note>Bibliography: p. 497-552.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Cities and towns</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Regional planning</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>City planning</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">HT151 M78 1970</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc">323.352</classification>
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