The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities - Softcover

"Rykwert is a gloriously erudite, ingeniously speculative historian and critic of architecture."-Susan Sontag

"[A] wealth of incidental observations and reflections by a mature scholar."-The Washington Post Book World

"[Rykwert] writes elegantly and well, and he knows his subject.... The narrative truly swings along...with great verve and pace."-The Wall Street Journal

"A great historian . . . one of the profession's treasures and a writer of sobriety and dash."
--Architecture

"Far-ranging, idiosyncratic, discursive . . . " The New York Review of Books

Focuses on a range of urban environments from around the world, from nineteenth-century London and Paris, to contemporary New Delhi, New York, and Florida, to discuss urban evolution and argue for a return to a human agenda in city planning. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.