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Sennett, Richard, 1943-
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City planning.
Urbanization.
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Sennett, Richard, 1943-
City planning.
Urbanization.
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Building and dwelling :
ethics
for the
city
/ Richard Sennett.
by
Sennett, Richard, 1943-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2018.
Call #:
307.1216 S478b
Subjects
City
planning.
Urbanization.
ISBN:
9780374200336
0374200335
Alternate title:
Ethics
for the
city
Edition:
First American edition.
Description:
xiv, 343 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
Making and Dwelling is the definitive statement on cities by the renowned public intellectual Richard Sennett. In this sweeping work, he traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai. He shows how Paris, Barcelona, and New York
City
assumed their modern forms; rethinks the reputations of Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford, and others; and takes us on a tour of emblematic contemporary locations, from the backstreets of Medellin, Colombia, to the Google headquarters in Manhattan. Through it all, he laments that the "closed
city
"--segregated, regimented, and controlled--has spread from the global North to the exploding urban agglomerations of the global South. As an alternative, he argues for the "open
city
," where citizens actively hash out their differences and planners experiment with urban forms that make it easier for residents to cope.
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