Richard Sennett writes about cities, labor, and culture. He teaches sociology at New York University and at the London School of Economics. He is one of the most prominent scholars on the city, from Antique Greece to contemporary New York, and of the relations between its manifold public spaces and the human body. We hear his take on new technology and cultural expressions in Paris’s public spaces.
Richard Sennett answers three quick questions:
Question 1
Do new technologies of communication expand the skills of urbanites or, to the contrary, do they control their senses?
Question 2
Do information technologies in the subway detract riders from possible contacts with fellow riders?
Question 3
What do you think about cultural expressions in urban public spaces such as the "giant aperitifs" or the hijab?
Richard Sennett’s books on the city:
