In 1977 Richard Sennett founded, and directed for a decade, the New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University. He then chaired a United Nations commission on urban development and design. More recently he helped create, and has chaired, the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. A prolific contributor to newspapers and journals both in Britain and in the US, Sennett is the author of several books, including The Uses of Disorder: Personal identity and City Life (1970); The Fall of Public Man (1977); The Conscience of the Eye: The design and social life of cities (1991); and Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization (1994). Richard Sennett is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.