Book review ‘Richard Sennett, Democracy and Urban Form’ published

Verena Frick has written a review of Richard Sennett’s book ‘Democracy and Urban Form’ for the Journal of Urban Affairs.

The review is available here. The book brings together a series of lectures that Richard Sennett delivered at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1981. Challenging widespread diagnoses of urban crisis, Sennett argues that urban life possesses an inherent and irreducible democratic quality. His aim is to put urban design and planning at the service of this democratic potential.