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Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

Autor Richard Sennett
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 apr 2019
'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton,Prospect

'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades,Guardian


InBuilding and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built environment and the good life. He argues for, and describes in rich detail, the idea of an open city, one in which people learn to manage complexity. He shows how the design of cities can enrich or diminish the everyday experience of those who dwell in them.

The book ranges widely - from London, Paris and Barcelona to Shanghai, Mumbai and Medellin in Colombia - and draws on classic thinkers such as Tocqueville, Heidegger, Max Weber, and Walter Benjamin. It also draws on Sennett's many decades as a practical planner himself, testing what works, what doesn't, and why. He shows what works ethically is often the most practical solution for cities' problems. This is a humane and thrilling book, which allows us to think freshly about how we live in cities.

'Sennett is my kind of urbanist. He sees the modern city. He reads its secrets as he walks down the street, kicking over the detritus of the past ... There is no alternative to the planner, but please a planner who has read Sennett's book' Simon Jenkins,Sunday Times
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141022116
ISBN-10: 0141022116
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 36pp colour
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Richard Sennett's previous books includeThe Fall of Public Man,Flesh and StoneandRespect, as well as two previous volumes in his Homo Faber trilogy,The CraftsmanandTogether. For decades he has advised urban programmes for the United Nations, and has also worked as a planner for poor communities; he now teaches urban studies at the London School of Economics and at Harvard University. He has been awarded the Hegel and Spinoza prizes, as well as an honorary doctorate by Cambridge University. His private passions are playing the cello, fairly well, and cooking, fairly badly.

Recenzii

A lateish-life appraisal of what Richard Sennett has read, written and, most vitally, witnessed on the street or in the marketplace in the tradition of the sharp-eyed, sharp-nosedflâneurtaking in every sensation
Sennett leavens the big ideas with snapshots of real life. ... It reads like a summation of a life lived in cities and is, ultimately, a paean to their unpredictability, a call for tolerance and a celebration of difference.
He has brought to the study of urban life a perception that includes literature, philosophy, art, sociology and economics, as well as his personal experiences
Distils into a single volume his thoughts on how urban design shapes the ways in which we relate to one another ... Typically idealistic, typically urbane, it is well-timed for the disputes of our day