In FLESH AND STONE, Sennett examines the relationship between the human body and the urban environment it inhabits, looking at the differing attitudes to nudity, burial, sanctuary and urban planning in ancient Greece and Rome, Mediaeval and Renaissance Europe, and concluding with a fuller analysis of how the link between flesh and stone has altered with the advances in science and medicine. It is, as the author says in the introduction, "more than an historical catalogue of physical sensationsin urban space", offering fresh insights and ideas for anyone interested in the city or civic life.
- ISBN10 0141007591
- ISBN13 9780141007595
- Publish Date 30 January 2003 (first published 17 October 1994)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 June 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 432
- Language English