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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
"Witty, beautifully written--the culmination of Jacobs' previous thinking, and a step forward that deftly invokes a broader philosophical, even metaphysical, context." - Publishers Weekly
Modern Library Series
Modern Library
February 1993
624 pages ISBN: 0679600477 Hardcover (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
Thirty years after its publication, 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, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for
the humanistic management of cities. It is sensible,
knowledgeable, readable, indispensable.
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