Main entry:

Sennett, Richard, 1943- author.

Title & Author:

Building and dwelling : ethics for the city / Richard Sennett.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
©2018

Description:

xiv, 343 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : crooked, open, modest -- Part one : the two cities. Unstable foundations ; Cité 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.

ISBN:

9780374200336 hardcover
0374200335 hardcover

Subject:

City planning.
Urbanization.
Urbanisation.
urbanization.
HISTORY / Social History.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300531
Call No.: BIB 246732
Status: Available