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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/17/1992
ISBN: 9780393309096
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.59w x 0.55d