Breaking the rules to live in an open, plural city
€ 3.00The challenge for those who want to live, experience and build a different kind of city is to break the rules of the closed, segregated city. The regimented city model, governed by anti-democratic control, has conquered our planet from North to South and its urban agglomerates are in monstrous expansion. As the majority of the world’s population lives in cities today, it is the idea of the “open city” that represents both the change and the challenge, creating places where residents can actively display the differences between them and enabling a virtuous interaction with the urban structures. A certain type of modesty is needed to build and inhabit this city: to live as one person amidst many, in a world that does not simply reflect oneself. As the great architect Robert Venturi stated, “Living as one amidst many allows for the richness of meaning, rather than the clarity of meaning”. This, according to Sennett, is the ethic of the open city.
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Richard Sennett is one of the world’s most important contemporary sociologists. He founded the New York Institute for the Humanities in 1975, was director of the Commission of Urban Studies of UNESCO (1988-1993) and today teaches Urban Studies at London School of Economics and Harvard University. He is a senior fellow of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. His work in ethnographic, historical and theoretical research is dedicated to social links within cities and the effects of urban living. His many awards include the Spinoza Prize, the Hegel Prize and an honorary degree from Cambridge University. His books include: The Conscience of the Eye (1992); The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism (1999); The Craftsman (2008); Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation (2012); The Foreigner (2014); and Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the city (2018), which completes his Homo Faber trilogy.
Richard Sennett & i Dialoghi
2018
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