The death and life of great American cities / Jane Jacobs ; with a new foreword by the author
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- 8045089
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- Author:
- Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006, author
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- Edition:
- Modern Library edition.
- Description:
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- New York : Modern Library, 1993
- ©1993
- xxiv, 598 pages ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0679600477
- Summary:
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Thirty years after its publication, this book was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments." Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It is sensible, knowledgeable, readable, indispensable. The author has written a new foreword for this Modern Library edition.--From publisher description.
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- 1. Introduction
- pt. 1. The peculiar nature of cities
- 2. The uses of sidewalks: safety
- 3. The uses of sidewalks: contact
- 4. The uses of sidewalks: assimilating children
- 5. The uses of neighborhood parks
- 6. The uses of city neighborhoods
- pt. 2. The conditions for city diversity
- 7. The generators of diversity
- 8. The need for mixed primary uses
- 9. The need for small blocks
- 10. The need for aged buildings
- 11. The need for concentration
- 12. Some myths about diversity
- pt. 3. Forces of decline and regeneration
- 13. The self-destruction of diversity
- 14. The curse of border vacuums
- 15. Unslumming and slumming
- 16. Gradual money and cataclysmic mney
- pt. 4 Different tactics
- 17. Subsidizing dwellings
- 18. Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles
- 19. Visual order: its limitations and possibilities
- 20. Salvaging projects
- 21. Governing and planningdistricts
- 22. The kind of problem a city is
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Originally published: New York : Random House, 1961.
- Includes index.
- Subject:
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- City Planning
- Public Policy
- Urban Renewal
- City Planning -- United States
- Public Policy -- United States
- Urban Renewal -- United States
- City planning
- Urban policy
- Urban renewal
- City planning -- United States
- Urban renewal -- United States
- Urban policy -- United States
- United States
- City planning United States
- Urban policy United States
- Urban renewal United States
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2076 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2006
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1993
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