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"This book is the last of three exploring Homo faber's place in society. This book puts Homo faber in the city. The first part of this study looks at how urbanism-the professional practice of city-making has evolved. City-makers in the nineteenth century tried to connect the lived and the built; these tissues were fragile and tore easily. In the twentieth century, cité and ville turned away from each other in the ways that urbanists thought about and went about city-making. Urbanism became, internally, a gated community. The book then explores how three big issues are affected by this fault line between the lived and the built"--