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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Publisher: Vintage

Contributors:

Jane Jacobs (Author)

Contributors: Jane Jacobs (Author)

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BISAC categories: Social Science -> Sociology -> Urban

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Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.

"The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating and exciting study of this [great problem] which I have seen. It fairly crackles with bright honesty and common sense." --The New York Times

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.
ISBN-10: 067974195X
ISBN-13: 9780679741954
Author: Jacobs, Jane
Publisher: Vintage

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ISBN-13: 9780679741954

ISBN-10: 067974195X

Publisher: Vintage

Publish Date: December 1, 1992

On Sale Date: December 1, 1992

Language: English

Pages: 480

Dimensions: 8.0 × 5.26 × 1.22 in

Weight: 0.79 lbs

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