The city everyone wants to live in would be clean and safe, possess efficient public services, support a dynamic economy, provide cultural stimulation, and help heal society’s divisions of race and ethnicity and class. These are not the cities we live in…Something has gone wrong, radically wrong, in our conception of what a city itself should be.
– Richard Sennett (via pdsmith)

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The city everyone wants to live in would be clean and safe, possess efficient public services, support a dynamic economy, provide cultural stimulation, and help heal society’s divisions of race and ethnicity and class. These are not the cities we live in…Something has gone wrong, radically wrong, in our conception of what a city itself should be.
– Richard Sennett (via pdsmith)

(via humanscalecities)

Posted 1 year ago & Filed under Richard Sennett, ideal cities, urban planning, 39 notes

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    poor Sennett was totaly misunderstood.
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