[PDF.26nx] The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities

The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| a tired tale not at at the author's usual level|By Customer|As a long-time reader and appreciator of Rykwert, I was disappointed in this one. Somehow the task defeats defeats him -- but, then. it's defeated a lot of people. The story of the modern city and how to help it evolve is far too entangled in nasty politics to be amenable to Rywert's sincerity and scholarship.|0 of|.com |The subtitle to this, the tenth book by architecture professor (and lively writer) Joseph Rykwert--namely, "The City in the Twenty-First Century and Beyond"--is a whopping misnomer. It is only in the final chapter that Rykwert pays attention (and briskly,

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...

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