{"product_id":"reflections-on-democracy-and-urban-form-provocations-from-a-panel-at-harvards-graduate-school-of-design","title":"Reflections on Democracy and Urban Form: Provocations from a Panel at Harvard's Graduate School of Design","description":"\u003cp\u003eReflections on Democracy and Urban Form gathers the conversation that followed Richard Sennett's 1981 Harvard lectures back into print—four decades on, with the political stakes altered but the questions intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn autumn 1981 Richard Sennett delivered six lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Design under the title Democracy and Urban Form, arguing that social discourse is the foundation of democracy and that cities are uniquely positioned to either enable or constrict it. Those lectures were published in 2024 by Harvard Design Press and Sternberg Press. This volume is the sequel to that publication: on 10 October 2024, a panel convened at the GSD to respond to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Sennett, Diane E. Davis, Miguel Robles-Durán, Claire Zimmerman and Markus Miessen take up the connections between democracy and justice, architecture and urban design, the growth of cities, cosmopolitanism, inclusion and free speech. The political climate of 1981 was a different one, but the panel's readiness to test Sennett's core insight against present conditions—polarisation, exclusion, contested public space—is what gives the book its charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eKey features\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvocations from a panel convened at Harvard GSD in October 2024\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributions from Richard Sennett, Diane E. Davis, Miguel Robles-Durán, Claire Zimmerman and Markus Miessen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCompanion volume to \u003cem\u003eDemocracy and Urban Form\u003c\/em\u003e (ISBN 9781915609472)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublished in The Incidents, a Sternberg Press series drawn from events at Harvard GSD, edited by Ken Stewart and Marielle Suba and designed by ELLA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow Sennett's argument that discourse underwrites democracy holds up against four decades of urban and political change\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhere five scholars agree and diverge on the relationship between spatial design and democratic life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy questions of cosmopolitanism, inclusion and free speech have become sharper rather than settled since 1981\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat a panel format—provocation and response rather than sustained lecture—opens up that a monograph cannot\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the contributors\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Sennett is a sociologist and urban theorist, senior adviser to the United Nations on its programme on climate change and cities, and the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Fall of Public Man\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Corrosion of Character\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. Diane E. Davis is Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism at Harvard GSD. Markus Miessen is principal of Studio Miessen in Berlin and Professor of Urban Regeneration at the University of Luxembourg. Miguel Robles-Durán and Claire Zimmerman work on urbanism and architectural history respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 230 x 147mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 68\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: 9781915609977\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Sternberg Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublication date: 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePerfect for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArchitects and urban designers thinking about public space and political life, students of urban theory, and readers of Sennett looking for the contemporary argument his lectures have provoked.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sternberg Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48954410991841,"sku":"9781915609977","price":37.4,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/9781915609977.jpg?v=1787205985","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/reflections-on-democracy-and-urban-form-provocations-from-a-panel-at-harvards-graduate-school-of-design","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}