Download or read book The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities written by Richard Sennett and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992-08-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 and culture.