The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities / (Revised)

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ISBN-10: 0393308782
ISBN-13: 9780393308785
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 08/01/1992
Dimensions: 8.50" L, 5.50" W, 0.80" H

The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities / (Revised)

byRichard Sennett

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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.”

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Sennett brings an immensely civilized perspective to the forms and patterns–the visual experiences–of cities, primarily New York City, interpreting how they shape, reflect, or, sadly, fail to reflect, the human beings who built and use them. . . . Provocative and learned.– "Kirkus Reviews"
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Details

ISBN-10: 0393308782
ISBN-13: 9780393308785
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 08/01/1992
Dimensions: 8.50" L, 5.50" W, 0.80" H
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