In this sweeping study, one of the world's leading thinkers about the urban environment traces the often anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai. Richard Sennett shows how Paris, Barcelona and New York City assumed their modern forms, rethinks the reputations of Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford and others, and takes us on a tour of emblematic contemporary locations, from the backstreets of Medell n, Colombia, to ...