An edition of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)

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An edition of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)

The death and life of great American cities.

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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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Random House
Language
English
Pages
458

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Subjects

City planning, Urban renewal, Urban policy, Cities and towns, United States, 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)

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United States, États-Unis, United Stated

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The death and life of great American cities.
1961, Random House
in English
Cover of: The death and life of great American cities.
The death and life of great American cities.
1961, Random House
in English
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
1961-01-01, Random House, Vintage Books
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Dewey Decimal Class
711.40973
Library of Congress
HT167 .J33 1961

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Pagination
458 p.
Number of pages
458

Edition Identifiers

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OL5820238M
LCCN
61006262
LibraryThing
25885

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OL93641W

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