Democracy and urban form / by Richard Sennett.

Main entry:

Sennett, Richard, 1943- author.

Title & Author:

Democracy and urban form / by Richard Sennett.

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard Design Press ; London : Sternberg Press, [2024]
©2024

Description:

258 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Series:

The incidents

Notes:
"November 4, 12, 18, and December 2, 9, 16, 1981, Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. From the Special Collections at the Frances Loeb Library"--Page [5].
Lecture 1. Democracy disabled -- Lecture 2. The desire for isolation out of fear -- Lecture 3. The civilized modern city -- Lecture 4. Two kinds of community, neither a solution -- Lecture 5. The town square -- Lecture 6. Democratic theory and urban form.

Summary:

"'Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been less.' This was the state of the discipline that social theorist and urban thinker Richard Sennett declared when he addressed an audience at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1981. Over a series of six lectures, Sennett presented social discourse as the foundation of democracy, and posited that our cities are uniquely positioned to either empower or constrict this discourse-and that the difference could lie in architecture and urban design. Now, over forty years later, as political polarization persists and its consequences arise in both new and familiar ways, Democracy and Urban Form revisits questions that remain relevant: if discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable it?"--Back cover.

ISBN:

9781915609472 (hardcover)
191560947X (hardcover)

Subject:

City planning Social aspects.
Architecture Political aspects.
Democracy Social aspects.
Architecture Aspect politique.

Added entries:

Davis, Diane E., 1953- writer of preface.
Safdie, Moshe, 1938- writer of introduction.
Incidents (Sternberg Press)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320562
Call No.: 320562
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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