Main entry:

Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990, author.

Title & Author:

From the ground up : observations on contemporary architecture, housing, highway building, and civic design / by Lewis Mumford.

Publication:

New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Company, ©1956.

Description:

viii, 243 pages ; 19 cm

Series:

A Harvest book, 13

Notes:
"Make No Little Plans" -- From Utopia Parkway Turn East -- Fresh Meadows, Fresh Plans -- UN Model and Model UN -- Buildings as Symbols -- Magic with Mirrors -- A Disoriented Symbol -- United Nations Assembly -- Workshop Invisible -- The Fujiyama of Architecture -- A Phoenix Too Infrequent -- Blight and Beauty -- Skin Treatment and New Wrinkles -- Fresh Start -- Prefabricated Blight -- The Plight of the Prosperous -- The Gentle Art of Overcrowding -- Schools for Human Beings -- Municipal Functions and Civic Art -- Closed Minds and Open Spaces -- House of Glass -- Crystal Lantern -- Windows and Gardens -- Museum or Kaleidoscope? -- The Roaring Traffic's Boom -- Is New York Expendable? -- The Two-Way Flood -- Restored Circulation, Renewed Life -- From the Ground Up.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

0156340194
9780156340199

Subject:

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
City planning.
City planning New York (State) New York.
Housing.
Traffic engineering.
Architecture, Modern.
Architecture.
City Planning
Urbanisme.
Urbanisme New York (État) New York.
Logement.
Technique de la circulation.
Architecture 20e siècle.
traffic engineering.
housing (concept)
architecture (discipline)
urban planning.
Architektur
Stadtplanung
Verkehrsbau
Architecture New York (State) New York.
City planning United States.
Architecture moderne 20e siècle.
New York (State) New York
New York (N.Y.) City planning.

Added entries:

C. Donald Cook Frank Lloyd Wright Collection
Harvest book ; 13.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 91116
Call No.: NA44.M962 (ID:95-B5)
Status: Available