Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
Richard Sennett
Frankfurt aM: Suhrkamp, 1997
The body of the City in Western Civilization. A particular history of the city: from the cities of ancient Athens to modern New York. We find, for example in the chapter "The voice of the citizen, a detailed description of speech areas," of the development of public speaking and their architectural requirements in the urban context.
"So people in a multicultural city to turn to each other, we must, I believe the understanding we have of our own bodies change. We will never know the difference of other can, as long as we do not recognize the physical inadequacy in ourselves. "
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