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The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity and City Life

The distinguished social critic Richard Sennett here shows how the excessively ordered community freezes adults — both the young idealists and their security-oriented parents — into rigid attitudes that stifle personal growth. He argues that the accepted ideal of order generates patterns of behavior among the urban middle classes that are stultifying, narrow, and violence-prone. And he proposes a functioning city that can incorporate anarchy, diversity, and creative disorder to bring into being adults who can openly respond to and deal with the challenges of life.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 224
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780393309096
  • Genres
  • sociology, urbanism, architecture, cities, philosophy, psychology, social, politics
  • Release date
  • 1992