The Conscience of the Eye: Design & Soci - Couverture souple

Sennett, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571164595 ISBN 13 : 9780571164592

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 1993

Synopsis

With an eye toward the architecture, art, literature and technology of urban life one of America's observers of society gives us an incisive study of the search for shelter and the fear of exposure to strangers and new experience in Western culture - and how these two concerns have shaped the physical fabric of the city. The author examines the development of urban society and structure from the ancient world to the present. His discussion takes the reader from the assembly hall of Athens to the Palladium Club, from Augustine's "City of Gold" to the Turkish baths of the lower east side, from 18th century English gardens to the housing projects of east Harlem and from Nietzsche's "Birth of Tragedy" to subway graffiti. By the author of "The Hidden Injuries of Class", "The Fall of Public Man" and "Authority".

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Richard Sennett teaches sociology at the London School of Economics and New York University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0571164595
• ISBN 13: 9780571164592
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible