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Author: Sennett Richard

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The excitement of the brilliantly innovative book is that it challenges the reader to revise his concept of order--and to consider the seemingly disparate problems of the individual personality and the urban society in the light of a fresh, unified framework that has the shock of new truth.

Drawing on recent ideas in psychology, sociology, and urban history, Sennett shows how the excessively "ordered" community freezes adults--both the fierce young idealists and their security-oriented parents--into rigid attitudes that originate in adolescence and stifle further personal growth. He explains how the accepted ideal of order generates patterns of behavior among the urban middle cases that are stultifying, narrow, and violence-prone. He demonstrates that most city planning has been conducted with the same rigidity, and shows, in specific and human terms, why that approach has not solved and cannot solve our cities problems.

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