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The death and life of great American cities / Jane Jacobs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City planning--United States.
- City planning.
- United States.
- Urban renewal--United States.
- Urban renewal.
- Urban policy--United States.
- Urban policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (458 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Vintage books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.
- Contents:
- The peculiar nature of cities. The uses of sidewalks : safety
- The uses of sidewalks : contact
- The uses of sidewalks : assimilating children
- The uses of neighborhood parks
- The uses of city neighborhoods
- The conditions for city diversity. The generators of diversity
- The need for primary mixed uses
- The need for small blocks
- The need for aged buildings
- The need for concentration
- Some myths about diversity.
- Forces of decline and regeneration. The self-destruction of diversity
- The curse of border vacuums
- Unslumming and slumming
- Gradual money and cataclysmic money
- Different tactics. Subsidizing dwellings
- Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles
- Visual order : its limitations and possibilities
- Salvaging projects
- Governing and planning districts
- The kind of problem a city is.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Random House, [1961].
- Includes index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006. Death and life of great American cities.
- ISBN:
- 9780525432852
- 052543285X
- Publisher Number:
- 99983934986
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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