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| (1895–1990)
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| Social thinker, and writer, born in Flushing, New York, USA. A student at both City and Columbia Universities (1912–18) who never graduated, he wrote for New Republic and Harper's in the 1920s before publishing his first book, Sticks and Bones (1924). A charter member of the Regional Planning Association of America (1924), he became architectural critic for the New Yorker in the 1930s. He produced a series of books about the debilitating effects of technology on city life, including The Renewal of Life (4 vols, 1934–51), The Culture of Cities (1938), and The City in History (1961). Seen as a visionary by some and a prophet of doom by others, he continued to offer plans for dealing with the chaos of urban life. He was a planning professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1952–61), and visiting professor at other universities, including the University of California, Berkeley and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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