Democracy and Urban Form

Sennett, Richard

Democracy and Urban Form
  • 出版商: Sternberg Press
  • 出版日期: 2024-10-29
  • 售價: $1,100
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 264
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 191560947X
  • ISBN-13: 9781915609472

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商品描述

If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse?

"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 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 40 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 discourse?

商品描述(中文翻譯)

如果話語是民主的基礎，那麼我們城市的設計如何能夠賦能並促進話語？

「建築的潛在政治後果從未如此重大，而建築的政治敏感性卻從未如此低落。」這是社會理論家和城市思想家理查德·塞內特在1981年於哈佛大學設計研究所演講時所宣告的學科現狀。在一系列六場講座中，塞內特將話語視為民主的基礎，並提出我們的城市在賦能或限制這種話語方面具有獨特的地位，而這種差異可能體現在建築和城市設計上。

如今，四十多年過去，隨著政治極化持續存在，其後果以新舊方式不斷浮現，《民主與城市形態》重新探討了仍然相關的問題：如果話語是民主的基礎，那麼我們城市的設計如何能夠賦能並促進話語？

作者簡介

Richard Sennett currently serves as Senior Advisor to the United Nations on its Program on Climate Change and Cities. He is Senior Fellow at the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at MIT. He previously founded the New York Institute for the Humanities and taught at New York University and the London School of Economics. Over the last 50 years, he has written about social life in cities, changes in labor, and social theory. His books include The Hidden Injuries of Class, The Fall of Public Man, The Corrosion of Character, and The Culture of the New Capitalism. Among other awards, he has received the Hegel and Spinoza Prizes and an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

理查德·塞內特目前擔任聯合國氣候變遷與城市計畫的高級顧問。他是哥倫比亞大學資本主義與社會中心的高級研究員，以及麻省理工學院城市研究的客座教授。他曾創立紐約人文學院，並在紐約大學和倫敦政治經濟學院任教。在過去的50年中，他撰寫了有關城市社會生活、勞動變遷和社會理論的著作。他的書籍包括《階級的隱秘傷害》、《公共人的衰落》、《品格的腐蝕》和《新資本主義的文化》。他曾獲得黑格爾獎和斯賓諾莎獎，以及劍橋大學的榮譽博士學位。

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