The death and life of great American cities

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The death and life of great American cities

  • 4.25 ·
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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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English
Pages
474

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Death and Life of Great American Cities
2020, Random House Children's Books
in English
Cover of: Smierc i zycie wielkich miast Ameryki
Smierc i zycie wielkich miast Ameryki
Jan 01, 2018, Centrum Architektury
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Death and Life of Great American Cities
2016, Penguin Random House
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Cover of: Tod und Leben Großer Amerikanischer Städte
Tod und Leben Großer Amerikanischer Städte
2015, de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
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Tod und Leben Großer Amerikanischer Städte
2014, de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
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Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades
2013, Capitan Swing
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Buyuk Amerikan Sehirlerinin Olumu ve Yasami
Nov 04, 2011, Metis Yayinlari
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The death and life of great American cities
2011, Modern Library
in English - 50th anniversary ed., 2011 Modern Library ed.
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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
2002, Random House
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Morte e vida de grandes cidades
2000, Martins Fontes
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Mar 29, 2000, Books On Tape
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The death and life of great American cities
2000, Pimlico
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Morte e vida de grandes cidades
2000, Martins Fontes
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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
1994, Penguin in association with Jonathan Cape
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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
1992, Vintage Books
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Déclin et survie des grandes villes américaines
1991, Pierre Mardaga
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Death and Life of Great American Cities (Peregrine Books)
June 1984, Viking Pr
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Death and Life of the Great American Cities
June 1981, Random House
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The death and life of great American cities
1972, Penguin
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Cover of: Vita e morte delle grandi grandi città
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Muerte y vida de las grandes ciudades
1967, Ediciones Península
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The death and life of great Americancities.
1964, Penguin in association with Cape
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
Harmondsworth
Series
Pelican books

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
309.2/62/0973
Library of Congress
NA9108 .J3 1972, HT167

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Pagination
474 p. :
Number of pages
474

ID Numbers

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OL5244657M
ISBN 10
0140206817
LCCN
75316480
Library Thing
25885
Goodreads
1094266

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