The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities

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“Visionary, often brilliant.” —Los Angeles Times/n/n From the assembly halls of Athens to the Turkish baths of New York’s Lower East Side, from eighteenth-century English gardens to the housing projects of Harlem—a study of the physical fabric of the city as a mirror of Western society and culture.