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This vivid history of the city in Western civilization tells the story of urban life through bodily experience. Flesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life? how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dressed, the mores of bathing and of making love? all in the architecture of stone and space from ancient Athens to modern New York. Early in Flesh and Stone, Richard Sennett probes the ways in which the ancient Athenians experienced nakedness, and the relation of nakedness to the shape of the ancient city, its troubled politics, and the inequalities between men and women. The story then moves to Rome in the time of the Emperor Hadrian, exploring Roman beliefs in the geometrical perfection of the body. The second part of the book examines how Christian beliefs about the body related to the Christian city? the Venetian ghetto, cloisters, and markets in Paris. The final part of Flesh and Stone deals with what happened to urban space as modern scientific understanding of the body cut free from pagan and Christian beliefs. Flesh and Stone makes sense of our constantly evolving urban living spaces, helping us to build a common home for the increased diversity of bodies that make up the modern city.
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Body, Human, Cities and towns, Civilization, Western, History, Human Body, Social aspects, Social aspects of the Human body, Western Civilization, Protected DAISY, Accessible book, In library, Liberdade Individual, Historia, Direito de Locomoc ʹa o., Corpo Humano,, Cidade,, Espac ʹo Urbano,, Sociologia Urbana, Civilizac ʹa o OcidentalShowing 5 featured editions. View all 11 editions?
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Carne y piedra: el cuerpo y la ciudad en la civilización occidental
November 1997, Alianza
Paperback
in Spanish
- 3a. reimp.
8420694894 9788420694894
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Carne e pedra: o corpo e a cidade na civilização ocidental
1997, Record
Paperback
in Portuguese
- 1 edition
8501046205 9788501046208
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Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
March 1996, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
0393313913 9780393313918
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Flesh and stone: the body and the city in Western civilization
1994, Faber
in English
057117390X 9780571173907
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Flesh and stone: the body and the city in Western civilization
1994, W.W. Norton
in English
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0393036847 9780393036848
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