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Lewis Mumford

1895 - 1990

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Lewis Mumford (19 October 1895 – 26 January 1990) was an American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic. Particularly noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, he had a broad career as a writer. He made signal contributions to social philosophy, American literary and cultural history, and the history of technology.He was influenced by the work of Scottish theorist Sir Patrick Geddes and worked closely with his associate the British sociologist Victor Branford. Mumford was also a contemporary and friend of Frank Lloyd Wright, Clarence Stein, Frederic Osborn, Edmund N. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lewis Mumford has received more than 754,864 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Lewis Mumford is the 1,559th most popular writer (up from 1,596th in 2019), the 2,014th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,971st in 2019) and the 185th most popular American Writer.

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  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lewis Mumford ranks 1,559 out of 5,755. Before him are Ko Un, Fran Krsto Frankopan, Sabino Arana, Anton Praetorius, Marcel Aymé, and Yaşar Kemal. After him are Nicolas-Edme Rétif, Liu Zongyuan, Elizabeth Bishop, Alphonse Allais, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, and Sergei Dovlatov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Lewis Mumford ranks 90. Before him are Princess Margaret of Denmark, Dickinson W. Richards, Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria, Sheng Shicai, Matthew Ridgway, and Alexander Orlov. After him are Kurt Schumacher, Max Koegel, Marcel Janco, Prescott Bush, Heinrich Eberbach, and Hanns Albin Rauter. Among people deceased in 1990, Lewis Mumford ranks 60. Before him are Sammy Davis Jr., John Stewart Bell, Viktor Tsoi, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Hussein Onn, and Jim Henson. After him are Sergei Dovlatov, Angelo Schiavio, Delphine Seyrig, Samuel Noah Kramer, Curtis LeMay, and Samuel Doe.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lewis Mumford ranks 2,014 out of 18,182. Before him are Charles Sweeney (1919), Jim Parsons (1973), Megan Fox (1986), King Vidor (1894), Jamie Foxx (1967), and Ben Carson (1951). After him are Julia Ann (1969), Howard Martin Temin (1934), James Whitmore (1921), Henry Molaison (1926), Blythe Danner (1943), and Elizabeth Bishop (1911).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Lewis Mumford ranks 185. Before him are Gore Vidal (1925), David Woodard (1964), Upton Sinclair (1878), Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930), Elizabeth George (1949), and Wayne Dyer (1940). After him are Elizabeth Bishop (1911), Alice Walker (1944), James Ellroy (1948), Walter Tevis (1928), Agnes Smedley (1892), and Ken Wilber (1949).

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