BUILDING AND DWELLING

Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement on cities by the renowned public intellectual Richard Sennett. In this sweeping wo rk, he traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-c entury Shanghai. He shows how Paris, Barcelona, and New York City assumed their modern forms/ rethinks the reputations of Jane Jacob s, Lewis Mumford, and others/ and takes us on a tour of emblematic contemporary locations, from the backstreets of Medellín, Colombi a, to th...[Read more]