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Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City (Paperback)
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Building and Dwelling - Ethics for the City (Paperback)
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List price R428
Loot Price R389
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'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
In Building 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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