Building and dwelling : ethics for the city / Richard Sennett

By: Sennett, Richard, 1943- [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019©2018 Edition: First American paperback editionDescription: xiv, 342 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0374538212Subject(s): City planning | UrbanizationLOC classification: HT151 .S428 2019
Contents:
Introduction : crooked, open, modest -- Part one : the two cities. Unstable foundations ; Cit©♭ and ville divorce -- Part two : the difficulty of dwelling. Klee's angle leaves Europe ; The weight of others ; Tocqueville in Technolpolis -- Part three : opening the city. The competent urbanite ; Five open forms ; The bond of making -- Part four : ethics for the city. Time's shadows -- Conclusion : one among many
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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Includes bibliographical references and index

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

Introduction : crooked, open, modest -- Part one : the two cities. Unstable foundations ; Cit©♭ and ville divorce -- Part two : the difficulty of dwelling. Klee's angle leaves Europe ; The weight of others ; Tocqueville in Technolpolis -- Part three : opening the city. The competent urbanite ; Five open forms ; The bond of making -- Part four : ethics for the city. Time's shadows -- Conclusion : one among many

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