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Harvard GSD marks the release of the book Democracy and Urban Form, a copublication by Harvard Design Press and Sternberg Press, which brings together a series of six lectures that the sociologist Richard Sennett gave under the same name at the GSD in the fall of 1981. These lectures, which happened now more than 40 years ago, addressed a much different political climate. But Richard’s core insight into the connections between democracy and justice, matters of architecture and urban design, the growth of cities, cosmopolitanism, inclusion, free speech, and other related matters are just as relevant today.
On Thursday, October 10, a panel including Richard Sennett, Diane Davis, Claire Zimmerman, Markus Miessen, and Miguel Robles-Durán, will reflect on Sandel’s talk, as well as on the state of democracy as it relates more specifically to architecture and the design and planning of cities and metropolitan regions.
Speakers:
Diane Davis
Markus Miessen
Miguel Robles-Durán
Richard Sennett
Claire Zimmerman
Harvard GSD marks the release of the book Democracy and Urban Form, a copublication by Harvard Design Press and Sternberg Press, which brings together a series of six lectures that the sociologist Richard Sennett gave under the same name at the GSD in the fall of 1981. These lectures, which happened now more than 40 years ago, addressed a much different political climate. But Richard’s core insight into the connections between democracy and justice, matters of architecture and urban design, the growth of cities, cosmopolitanism, inclusion, free speech, and other related matters are just as relevant today.
On Thursday, October 10, a panel including Richard Sennett, Diane Davis, Claire Zimmerman, Markus Miessen, and Miguel Robles-Durán, will reflect on Sandel’s talk, as well as on the state of democracy as it relates more specifically to architecture and the design and planning of cities and metropolitan regions.
Speakers:
Diane Davis
Markus Miessen
Miguel Robles-Durán
Richard Sennett
Claire Zimmerman
