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• Title:Building and dwelling : ethics for the city / Richard Sennett.
  
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• Author/Creator:Sennett, Richard, 1943- author.
  
• Published/Created:[London] : Allen Lane, 2018.
  © 2018
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at MAA LIBRARY (IKB) reserve collectionWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HT166 .S46 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning.
  Urbanization.
  City and town life.
  
• Description:xiv, 341 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (mostly color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:In this sweeping study, one of the world's leading thinkers about the urban environment traces the often anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai. Richard Sennett 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 shows how 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. Rich with arguments that speak directly to our moment - a time when more humans live in urban spaces than ever before - Building and Dwelling draws on Sennett's deep learning and intimate engagement with city life to form a bold and original vision for the future of cities.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780713998757 hardback
  071399875X hardback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Crooked, Open, Modest
  pt. ONE Two Cities
  2. Unstable Foundations
  3. Cite and Ville Divorce
  pt. TWO Difficulty of Dwelling
  4. Klee's Angel Leaves Europe
  5. Weight of Others
  6. Tocqueville in Technopolis
  pt. THREE Opening the City
  7. Competent Urbanite
  8. Five Open Forms
  9. Bond of Making
  pt. FOUR Ethics for the City
  10. Time's Shadows.