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The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities (Vintage)
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 ...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
March 12th 2002
by Vintage Books USA
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I was not happy with this book. I read it under the title The Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty-First Century, and it was mostly, from my perspective, a collection of historical anecdotes about cities with very little narrative structure. I also was unable to detect an argument in this book.
Rykwert is clearly a brilliant guy, but I'm not sure what he was trying to do here.
Rykwert is clearly a brilliant guy, but I'm not sure what he was trying to do here.
hard work but rewarding, an excellent history of cities and a post 9/11 perspective for the future
decent book. analysis and opinion lacking until last chapter.
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