The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities
Richard Sennett
284 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0393308782
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Language: English
Publish: 714034800000
ArchitectureCitiesGeographyHistoryNonfictionPhilosophySociologyUrbanUrban PlanningUrbanism
“Visionary, often brilliant.” ― Los Angeles Times From the assembly halls of Athens to the Turkish baths of New York’s Lower East Side, from eighteenth-century English gardens to the housing projects of Harlem―a study of the physical fabric of the city as a mirror of Western society and culture.