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  • Lewis Mumford's The City in History is also 50 this year, and I'd prefer our leaders to read his warnings about unchecked growth, the vast inequalities found in cities, and the need for redistribution of urban space.

    Letters: Ed Miliband listened – what did he learn? 2011

  • In Lewis Mumford's gloomy reflection on the failure of cities to do as they are told, the author writes that the modern city "contains within itself the explosive forces that will wipe out all traces of its existence."

    Five Best: Simon Jenkins Simon Jenkins 2011

  • Peter Mumford's lighting is the main source of what little color there is in the production—a deep pink for the Act III love duet; a sepia tinge that turns the death of Marguerite's pugnacious and unforgiving brother Valentin into a daguerreotype.

    A Chance to Do It Over Heidi Waleson 2011

  • From the left of the return over toward Hatcher's Run was posted Mumford's cavalry, dismounted.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • I did not know exactly how far toward Hatcher's Run this part of the works extended, for here the videttes of Mumford's cavalry were covering, but I did know where the refusal began.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • Mumford's anthropological description of the propitiation of Shuk-den in the

    The Shuk-den affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part I) 2010

  • Mumford's anthropological description of the propitiation of Shuk-den in the

    The Shuk-den affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part I) 2010

  • To hold on to Fitzgerald's ford Smith had to make a sharp fight, but Mumford's cavalry attacking Devin, the enemy's infantry succeeded in getting over Chamberlain's Creek at a point higher up than Fitzgerald's ford, and assailing Davies, forced him back in a northeasterly direction toward the Dinwiddie and Five Forks road in company with Devin.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • Whether playing Marling's song Devil's Spoke, Mumford's song To Darkness, or a new piece the three acts wrote together in Delhi last year, their musicianship merges as seamlessly as the warp and weft of a sumptuous tapestry.

    Mumford & Sons and friends 2010

  • Their music is lit by dramatic contrast and dense with emotion, and you can sense how well it might marry with Marling's and Mumford's.

    Mumford & Sons and friends 2010

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