Designing Disorder
experiments and disruptions in the city
$51.43
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2020
Summary
In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed. Fifty years later, Sennett returns to these still fertile ideas and, alongside campaigner and architect Pablo Sendra, sets out an agenda for the design and ethics of the Open City. The public spaces of our cities are under siege from planners, privatisation and increased surveillance. Our streets are becoming ever more lifeless and ordered. What is to be…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781788737807 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1788737806 |
| Author: | Richard Sennett, Pablo Sendra |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2020 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 219mm x 148mm |
About The Author
Richard Sennett
Pablo Sendra is Lecturer in Planning and Urban Design at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. He is also co-founder and partner of the urban design practice Lugadero and co-founder of CivicWise. He has recently co-edited with Maria Jo o Pita and the Civic Wise network the book Civic Practices (2017).Richard Sennett’s first book was The Uses of Disorder, published in 1970. His previous books include The Fall of Public Man, Flesh and Stone and Respect, as well as the recent Homo Faber trilogy, The Craftsman, Together, Building and Dwellings. For decades he has advised urban programmes for the United Nations. He has been awarded the Hegel and Spinoza prizes, as well as an honorary doctorate by Cambridge University.
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