Till We Have Built Jerusalem : Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred

Preface xi Introduction xvii Part One: Cities and Human Flourishing Virtuous Reality: Aristotle, Critical Realism, and the Reconstruction of Architectural and Urban Theory 3(28) Democracy's Private Places 31(6) Design and Happiness 37(14) The Architectural Community and the Polis: Thinking about Ends, Premises, and Architectural Education 51(14) Part Two: The Sacred and the City Making Sacred: The Phenomenology of Matter and Spirit in Architecture and the City 65(14) Beyond Irony: Biblical Religion and Architectural Renewal 79(16) A Dutch Master and the Good Life 95(12) Design Matters: The City and the Church 107(28) Sacramental Sign, Neighborhood Center: A Proposal for Catholic Churches in the Twenty-First Century 135(16) Religion and New Urbanism 151(6) Part Three: New Urbanism The Polis and Natural Law: The Moral Authority of the Urban Transect 157(32) New Urbanism and Politics: A Conservative Case for Urbanism 189(4) After Heroes: Nietzsche or Chesterton? 193(24) Part Four: Critical Essays Architecture and Otherness 217(10) Peter Eisenman and the Architecture of the Therapeutic 227(10) St. Colin Rowe and the Architecture Theory Wars 237(20) The Rhetorician of Urbanism 257(12) The Old Urbanism 269(28) Postscript: In the Neighborhood 275(4) Appendices The New Urbanism: From Aristotle and God to Baseball 279(12) The Case for Fenway Park 291(6) Index 297