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"Visionary, often brilliant." — Los Angeles Times 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... read more

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First Sentence

THE PEOPLE of the Old Testament did not separate spiritual life and worldly experience.

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  1. Richard Sennett (Author)

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  1. architecture
  2. nonfiction
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