Lewis Mumford

On Lewis Mumford, Herman Melville, and the gentle art of looking back in time.

Can we appreciate Herman Melville’s work without attributing to it schemes for the uplift of modern man?

“Modern Housing,” by Catherine Bauer, argued—as many activists do today—that a decent home should be seen as a public utility and a basic right.

How the New England town became the mythical landscape of American democracy.

What American workers have lost since 1974 — and how some are getting it back.

In every generation, writers and readers find new ways to plumb the depths of Herman Melville and his work.

Finding space for cars has remade the built world. A new history uncovers just how much our lives revolve around parking.

How America gave up on housing equality.

Edward Bellamy's utopia influenced a generation of urban planners.

How a term that sounds inclusive is used to promote exclusion.

In its original concept, the Appalachian Trail was a wildly ambitious plan to reorganize the economic geography of the eastern United States.

An animation of the historical trends of New York's growth since its founding.

In 1985, Neil Postman observed an America imprisoned by its own need for amusement. He was, it turns out, extremely prescient.

Purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.