Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford's Writings on New YorkPublisher Fact Sheet Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) is still revered as one of America's leading cultural critics & an international authority on architecture & urbanism. Praise for Princeton Architectural Press's hardcover edition of Sidewalk Critic: "Here, at last, is a selection of Mumford's Sky Line pieces from 1931 through 1940, the body of work that made him the prince of America's architecture critics."--New Yorker "Robert Wojtowicz has done the public a service in republishing these essays & columns [of] one of America's greatest & least appreciated twentieth-century thinkers."--Harper's Magazine "Mumford's wonderfully stylish & incisive writing remains the unsurpassed model for an engaged architectural criticism. Lewis Mumford--whose eye was as good as his conscience--is our greatest critic. These pieces are among his best."--Michael Sorkin, architect & critic "For those of us who missed Lewis Mumford's 1930s articles in the New Yorker the first time around, this book provides a wonderful opportunity to 'catch up' & to consider again how this remarkable scholar could be at once so perceptive & so maddening."--Kenneth T. Jackson, editor of The Encyclopedia of New York. |
