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From The Ground Up: Observations on Contemporary Architecture, Housing, Highway Building, and Civic Design
From The Ground Up Observations on Contemporary Architecture Housing Highway Building and Civic Design Author:Lewis Mumford Contains 26 essays from The New Yorker, published between 1947 and 1956, discussing the desirability of making life in the Cities, and in NYC in particular, an aesthetic and spacious townscape and landscape for civilized living, including its motor traffic problems. The author was a leading voice in the United States in the Thirties throug... more »h Sixties of the ill effects suffered by urban life because of the automobile.« less