Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

ISBN-13: 9780141022116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 368 str.

Richard Sennett

Opis

Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city Anna Minton, ProspectConstantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking Jonathan Meades, GuardianIn Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetimes 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 Sennetts many decades as a practical planner himself, testing what works, what doesnt, 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 Sennetts book Simon Jenkins, Sunday Times

Recenzje

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-nosed flâneur taking in every sensation Jonathan Meades Guardian

O autorze

Richard Sennett grew up in the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago, attended the Julliard School in New York and then studied social relations at Harvard. Over the course of the last five decades, he has written about social life in cities, changes in labour and social theory. His books include The Hidden Injuries of Class, The Fall of Public Man, The Corrosion of Character, The Culture of the New Capitalism, The Craftsman and Building and Dwelling. Sennett has advised the United Nations on urban issues for the past thirty years and currently serves as member of the UN Committee on Urban Initiatives. He is Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at Harvard. Among other awards, he has received the Hegel Prize, the Spinoza Prize and the Centennial Medal from Harvard University.