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What values and practices can hold people together as the institutions in which they live fragment?
Richard Sennett • The Culture of the New Capitalism
André Gorz, qui résumait cette situation en suggérant que «la fonctionnarisation et la technicisation du travail ont fait éclater l’unité du travail et de la vie», en arrivait à la conclusion que «la crise de la société fondée sur le travail (au sens économique) oblige les individus à chercher ailleurs que dans le travail des sources d’identité et
... See moreJulia Posca • Travailler moins ne suffit pas (French Edition)
new ways of thinking can flourish in urban societies with the right mix of freedom, free money (from philanthropists or universities), argument and disputation.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Connectivity, culture, coherence, community, and compassion are the protective factors of civilized cities.
Jonathan F. P. Rose • The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
anyone who wants to understand how the most rapid rewiring of human relationships and consciousness in human history has made it harder for all of us to think, focus, forget ourselves enough to care about others, and build close relationships.
Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
What are the values, heuristics, norms and networks that currently shape human behaviour – and how could they be nurtured or nudged, rather than ignored and eroded?
Kate Raworth • Doughnut Economics: The must-read book that redefines economics for a world in crisis
You can’t make people use streets they have no reason to use. You can’t make people watch streets they do not want to watch. Safety on the streets by surveillance and mutual policing of one another sounds grim, but in real life it is not grim. The safety of the street works best, most casually, and with least frequent taint of hostility or suspicio
... See moreJane Jacobs • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
To generate exuberant diversity in a city’s streets and districts, four conditions are indispensable: 1. The district, and indeed as many of its internal parts as possible, must serve more than one primary function; preferably more than two. These must insure the presence of people who go outdoors on different schedules and are in the place for dif
... See moreJane Jacobs • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Mastery and competence are dramatically devalued at the expense of what Sennett calls “cooperation,” presumably unintentionally echoing Whyte’s far more blatant derision in using this word, but which we are happy to characterize more bluntly as manipulation.