ARGONAUT BOOKS

In this sweeping study, one of the world's leading thinkers about the urban environment traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to 21st-century Shanghai. Reviews A lateish-life appraisal of what Richard Sennett has read, written and, most vitally, witnessed on the street or in the marketplace in the tradition of the sharp-eyed, sharp-nosed flâneur taking in every sensationGuardian - Jonathan MeadesSennett leavens the big ideas with snapshots of real life. ... It reads like a summation of a life lived in cit...Read More