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 reputatio...
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.
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Richard Sennett is the author of The Craftsman, The Fall of Public Man, and The Corrosion of Character. He teaches urban studies at the London School of Economics and at Harvard University, and is a senior fellow in Columbia University’s Center for Capitalism and Society. For thirty years, he has directed projects under the auspices of the UN that aim to guide urban development...
Richard Sennett is the author of The Craftsman, The Fall of Public Man, and The Corrosion of Character. He teaches urban studies at the London School of Economics and at Harvard University, and is a senior fellow in Columbia University’s Center for Capitalism and Society. For thirty years, he has directed projects under the auspices of the UN that aim to guide urban development in the twenty-first century.
The smart city would become ever more complex in form, Its citee ever richer in meanings.
In one way this technological fantasy was nothing new. Aristotle wrote in the Politics that
'a city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence'
People are stronger together than apart; thus in wartime, Athens sheltered a diverse range of tribes who fled the countryside; it also took in exiles who then remained in the city. Though their status was ever unresolved and ambiguous, these refugees brought new ways of thinking and new crafts to the city. Aristotle was also thinking about the virtues of complexity in politics; in a diverse milieu, men (in Aristotle'stime, only men)are obliged to understand different points of view inorder to govern the city... (查看原文)
At MIT, I had occasion to see Stadtluft macht frei takeamong a group of young architects from Shanghai. Their home citvepitomizes the urban explosion occurring throughout the develeping world today, a place expanding economically at a headlong rat, drawing young people from all over China into its orbit. Although my band of Shanghainese went home to their vilages or small townseach New Year, in the city they lett their local outlooks and habitsbehind. Some of the young male architects came out as gay; youngfemale architects delayed or refused to have a child-both sexes causing grief to those at home. When I introduced my charges to Stadtitmacht frei, they translated the phrase into Mandarin as ' wearing deferent hats.
The superficial words convey a deep truth, that when life is open, it ... (查看原文)
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