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THINKING ALLOWED
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Thinking Allowed
Wednesday 16:00-16:30
Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
Click here to visit the Open University web siteThe Open University has teamed up with Thinking Allowed to let listeners explore more deeply and join the debate.
27 August 2008
repeat 31 August
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London City - Photographer: Wit Suphamungmee ©
IMAGINATION AND THE CITY

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London City
Photographer: Wit Suphamungmee ©

Laurie Taylor discusses how reality and fantasy combine to create our experience of the modern city. He is joined by the novelist Will Self, the sociologist Richard Sennett and the geographer Doreen Massey in the Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House.

Additional information:

Professor Richard Sennett
Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Social Science; Chair of the Cities Programme and Bemis Professor of Social Sciences at MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

The Culture of the New Capitalism
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300119925
ISBN-13: 978-0300119923

The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf
ISBN-10: 0394571045
ISBN-13: 978-0394571041

Professor Doreen Massey
Professor of Geography at the Open University

For Space
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
ISBN-10: 1412903629
ISBN-13: 978-1412903622

World City
Publisher: Polity Press
ISBN-10: 0745640605
ISBN-13: 978-0745640600

Space, Place and Gender
Publisher: Polity Press
ISBN-10: 0745612369
ISBN-13: 978-0745612362

Will Self
Novelist

How The Dead Live
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-10: 0140268650
ISBN-13: 978-0140268652

The Book of Dave
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-10: 0141014547
ISBN-13: 978-0141014548
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