The death and life of great American cities 17 editions
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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17 editions First published in 1961
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1994, Penguin in association with Jonathan Cape
The death and life of great American cities
in English
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History Created October 17, 2009 · 6 revisions
| November 2, 2011 | Edited by A Whalen | Edited without comment. |
| January 19, 2011 | Edited by ImportBot | add subjects from new record |
| May 5, 2010 | Edited by ImportBot | add scanned books from the Internet Archive |
| April 28, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the work. |
| October 17, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |