Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. 1961 Vintage paperback edition, 458 pages. Jacobs was an influential urbanologist and journalist. According to her NYT obituary, "In her book 'Death and Life of Great American Cities,' written in 1961, Ms. Jacobs's enormous achievement was to transcend her own withering critique of 20th-century urban planning and propose radically new principles for rebuilding cities. At a time when both common and inspired wisdom called for bulldozing slums and opening up city space, Ms. Jacobs's prescription was ever more diversity, density and dynamism, in effect, to crowd people and activities together in a jumping, joyous urban jumble."
Condition: VG
"There is nothing economically or socially inevitable about either the decay of old cities or the fresh-minted decadence of the new unurban urbanization."
Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs. 1961 Vintage paperback edition, 458 pages. Jacobs was an influential urbanologist and journalist. According to her NYT obituary, "In her book 'Death and Life of Great American Cities,' written in 1961, Ms. Jacobs's enormous achievement was to transcend her own withering critique of 20th-century urban planning and propose radically new principles for rebuilding cities. At a time when both common and inspired wisdom called for bulldozing slums and opening up city space, Ms. Jacobs's prescription was ever more diversity, density and dynamism, in effect, to crowd people and activities together in a jumping, joyous urban jumble."
Condition: VG
"There is nothing economically or socially inevitable about either the decay of old cities or the fresh-minted decadence of the new unurban urbanization."