How to Live in the City

ISBN-13: 9781447293316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 160 str.

Edward The Hugo Hollis School of Life Macdonald

Opis

Building a relationship with a city is a lot like building a relationship with another person--just as cities can be intoxicating, generous and inspiring, so they can also be dangerous, fickle and impenetrable. This is a book for navigating and nurturing this important relationship. Hugo Macdonald believes you need to feel a city to understand it. He won't tell you how wide the perfect pavement should be but he will show you how to walk down a pavement with eyes wide open. This is a book to help you feel human in an inhuman environment.

Recenzje

The School of Life is dedicated to making our lives clearer, less puzzling and more enjoyable - by studying the big themes of life with the help of culture. This new series of self-help books continues to reinvent the genre, making it into something more serious, profound and genuinely helpful. Alain de Botton

O autorze

The School of Life is a groundbreaking enterprise which offers good ideas for everyday living. Founded in 2008, The School of Life runs a diverse range of programmes and services which address questions of personal fulfilment and how to lead a better life. Drawing insights from philosophy, psychology, literature, the visual arts and sciences, The School of Life offers evening classes, weekends, conversation meals and other events that explore issues relating to big themes such as Love,Work, Play, Self, Family and Community. Hugo Macdonald is a design, architecture and urbanism critic and consultant living in London. He studied Arabic and modern history at Cambridge University before moving to London. He was deputy editor of Wallpaper* magazine's website and then design editor at Monocle magazine where he hosted Monocle radio's weekly design and architecture show, Section D. Today he is the brand director at Studioilse, Ilse Crawford's design consultancy. His writing has been published in titles including the FT, Guardian, The Modern Design Review and The London Society Journal.