The death and life of great American cities
by Jane Jacobs and Gerd Albers
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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. --- Book Description.
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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, Architecture, Amistad (Schooner)Places
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The death and life of great American cities
2011, Modern Library
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- 50th anniversary ed., 2011 Modern Library ed.
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Déclin et survie des grandes villes américaines
April 1, 1995, Mardaga
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2870094639 9782870094631
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The death and life of great American cities
1993, Modern Library
in English
- Modern Library ed.
0679600477 9780679600473
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
1992, Vintage Books
in English
- Vintage Books ed.
067974195X 9780679741954
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Originally published: New York : Random House, 1961.
Includes index.
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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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