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The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities

Paperback • 2002 • English

The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities

By Joseph Rykwert

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About the book

No other place on earth is as full both of promise and of dread as the city; it is at once alienating and exciting. These concentrations of people have not, however, come about as the result of vast immutable, impersonal forces, but because of human choices. The worsening or betterment of urban life will also be the result of choices. Our choices. That cities display and represent the personal desires of their inhabitants is central to Joseph Rykwert's argument in The Seduction of Place . In...Show more

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9780375700446

Publisher

VINTAGE

Published year

2002

Language

English

Original title

The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities

Format

Paperback

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