American cultural historian who wrote definitive studies of cities, technology, and civilization — arguing that the modern city and machine civilization had disrupted the organic relationship between humans and their environment.
The City in History: a Pulitzer-winning history of the city from ancient times — arguing for the humanistic city against megalopolis. Technics and Civilization: a philosophy of technology — the clock, not the steam engine, was the key invention of industrial civilization. The Myth of the Machine: technology as expression of power rather than utility.
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