Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades
by Jane Jacobs and Gerd Albers
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Cincuenta años después de su publicación, Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades es, según el New York Times, «probablemente el libro más influyente en la historia de la planificación urbana». Jane Jacobs, columnista y crítica de arquitectura de principios de los años sesenta, afirmaba que la diversidad y la vitalidad de las ciudades estaban siendo destruidas por algunos arquitectos y urbanistas muy influyentes.
Popular no sólo entre profesionales, el libro es una fuerte crítica de las políticas de renovación urbanística de los años cincuenta, que destruían comunidades y creaban espacios urbanos aislados y antinaturales. Jacobs defiende la abolición de los reglamentos de ordenación territorial y el restablecimiento de mercados libres de tierra, lo que daría como resultado barrios densos y de uso mixto. Frecuentemente cita el Greenwich Village neoyorkino como ejemplo de una comunidad urbana dinámica. Riguroso, lúcido y deliciosamente epigramático, Muerte y vida es un programa para la gestión humanista de las ciudades. Sensato, documentado, ameno e indispensable.
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City planning, Urban renewal, Urban policy, Cities and towns, United States, Juvenile literature, Stedenbouw, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Rénovation urbaine, Urbanisme, Urbanismo, Public Policy, Politique urbaine, City planning, united states, Cities and towns, united states, Villes, Sociologie urbaine, Croissance, History, ArchitecturePlaces
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Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades
2011, Capitán Swing
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The death and life of great American cities
2011, Modern Library
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Déclin et survie des grandes villes américaines
April 1, 1995, Mardaga
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The death and life of great American cities
1993, Modern Library
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
1992, Vintage Books
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities 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, Jane Jacobs’s tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable.
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