This thinker called Americans "stripped European[s]" in a work criticizing William Dean Howells for "paint[ing] no heroes," and criticized the World Trade Center as "only another Dinosaur" in another work. This thinker discussed "historic manifestations of love" in Values for Survival, and argued that American philosophy was a new stage of human development in The Golden Day. He wrote a series of books including The Pentagon of Power that developed the idea of the "megamachine," and divided the last thousand years of civilization into eotechnic, paleotechnic, and neotechnic eras in the first part of his "Renewal of Life" series. His studies of urban life include The Culture of Cities and The City in History. For 10 
This thinker called Americans "stripped European[s]" in a work criticizing William Dean Howells for "paint[ing] no heroes," and criticized the World Trade Center as "only another Dinosaur" in another work. This thinker discussed "historic manifestations of love" in Values for Survival, and argued that American philosophy was a new stage of human development in The Golden Day. He wrote a series of books including The Pentagon of Power that developed the idea of the "megamachine," and divided the last thousand years of civilization into eotechnic, paleotechnic, and neotechnic eras in the first part of his "Renewal of Life" series. His studies of urban life include The Culture of Cities and The City in History. For 10 points, name this American thinker who described the historical development of technology in Technics and Civilization.
This thinker called Americans "stripped European[s]" in a work criticizing William Dean Howells for "paint[ing] no heroes," and criticized the World Trade Center as "only another Dinosaur" in another work.
Lewis Mumford