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The Uses of Disorder : Personal Identity and City Life
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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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780393309096
- ISBN-10: 0393309096
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: August 1992
- Dimensions: 8.57 x 5.59 x 0.55 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
- Page Count: 220
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