本文為華易士﹒孟福之《歷史中的城市》中譯本之評論。作者指出《歷史中的城市》是英美人文主義建築論述中的建築史，伸展進都市丈這個新學域中具里程碑意義的著作。本文分析《歷史中的城市》與孟福式人文主義論述之苦命述形構，試圖闡明其無政府主義社會主義都市改革之知識傳統與它們的美國文化根源。在這基礎上，美國區域規劃學會與孟福式論述的“區域主義\"再放進一步定。最後，易士﹒孟福之批判性與歷史寫作被重新評價為進步年代美國布民社 會公共性建構的論述形式。

This is a review article on the Chinese translation of Lewis Mumford's The City Histoη(1961). The author attempts to analyse the discursive formation of this book and the Mumfordian humanist discourse.、This paper elaborates upon the intellectual tradition of the anarchist socialist urban reform that lay behind Mum Ford's views， and their roots in American culture. In addition， the “regionalism"in the RPAA and Mumfordian discourse is further defined. Finally， Lewis Mumford's critical and historical text is revaluated as the discursive form for the public constitution of American civil society in the progresslve era.