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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jacobs, Jane [Paperback]

Description: A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities. Jane Jacobs was the legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a work that has never gone out of print and that has transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works include The Economy of Cities, Systems of Survival, The Nature of Economies and Dark Age Ahead. She died in 2006.

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EAN: 9780679741954

UPC: 9780679741954

ISBN: 9780679741954

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Book Title: Death and Life of Great American Cities

Number of Pages: 480 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Item Height: 1 in

Publication Year: 1992

Topic: Regional Studies, Research, Sociology / Urban

Genre: Social Science

Item Weight: 11.8 Oz

Item Length: 8 in

Author: Jane Jacobs

Item Width: 5.2 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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