For more on Mumford, I wrote a tribute to him in Bloomberg, drawing from the many auto-skeptical essays he wrote for The New Yorker the 1950s and 60s. (Mumford's essays are an easier starting point than The City in History. It's a classic, but hardly a light read.)
I think I've started this a dozen different times and have never finished... 😔
13th time's a charm.
He's briefly featured in the short documentary, Taken for a Ride, on the subject of GM's underhanded destruction of public transit systems. youtu.be/p-I8GDklsN4