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    Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

    By Richard Sennett

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    A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forward

    Building and Dwelling     is the definitive statement on cities by the renowned public intellectual Richard Sennett. In this sweeping work, he traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai. He 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 Medellín, Colombia, to the Google headquarters in Manhattan. Through it all, he laments that 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 10, 2018
    ISBN9780374716240
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    Richard Sennett

    Richard Sennet, sociólogo y profesor de la prestigiosa London School of Economics, es autor de algunos de los ensayos más provocadores e incisivos de nuestro tiempo sobre el trabajo, la familia y las clases sociales, entre los que destaca "La corrosión del carácter", Premio Europa de Sociología, que tuvo una extraordianria acogida internacional.

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    • 3/5
      In Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, Richard Sennett explains what it takes to build a good life through a good environment for individuals and society as a whole, worldwide.

      Make no mistake, this is an academic text book and written for students in the same field, so although I personally found it interesting, it was not what I expected and it was quite wordy. However, if this is to be your field of expertise then that's not going to deter you. In fact this may actually be on your reading list.
      Sennett covers subjects such as the ethics of co-creation in cities and how the geography, along with economics, has a sociological effect on city-dwelling on a global level.

      Well researched, and for the layman like me it's full of interesting thought provoking ideas at how we can build and live in our cities of the future.

      I'll admit, I don't necessarily agree with everything Sennett says, but nevertheless he does what I am sure he set out to do, which was to get me thinking. So for any academics out there reading this, you should get heaps of challenging ideas regarding urban development from what is essentially a student text book.