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    Lewis Mumford, The Culture of Cities (Harcourt Brace, 1938; 1970)
    Considered by some to be the influential author-architect's greatest work, this book traces the metamorphosis and development of the urban environment, from the Middle Ages to the 1930s. His once-eye-opening arguments and ideas are today so accepted as to be nearly taken for granted.

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