Open cityA crooked, open, modest city
Judgements that the cité has ‘failed’ to open up are thus Janus-faced: one side of the coin shows angry populist prejudice, but on the other face can appear the self-satisfied...
Richard Sennett
Sociologist
American sociologist Richard Sennett is a professor emeritus of sociology at the London School of Economics, a professor of sociology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a professor of humanities at New York University and the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
He is especially well-known for his studies on social links in urban settings and the effects of urban life on individuals. His written works include The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity & City Life (1970), The Fall of Public Man (1977), Authority (1980), The Culture of the New Capitalism (2006), The Craftsman (2008), The Foreigner: Two Essays on Exile (2011), and The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda (2018).
Articles by Richard Sennett
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