num_pages: 284
description: "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.
language: English
title: The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities
titlecomplete: The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities
genres: Architecture, Urban, Nonfiction, Urbanism, Cities, Sociology, History, Geography, Urban Planning
ratings_count: 152
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company