| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780679741954 | | Publisher: Vintage Books | | Publish Date: 11/1/1992 | | Buy.com Sku: 30118439 | | Item#: RCYCP9 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 68426 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8H x 5.25L x 1.25T |
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| | | A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the shortsightedness 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.
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"Whenever and wherever societies have flourished and prospered rather than stagnated and decayed, creative and workable cities have been at the core of the phenomenon....Decaying cities, declining economies, and mounting social troubles travel together. The combination is not coincidental." - Jane Jacobs |
| Author Bio| Jane Jacobs | | Perhaps the name most cited name when people speak of urban studies, Jane Jacobs was a real person, who lived on Hudson Street, in New York's Greenwich Village. Jacobs's book THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES has been a perennial seller and a course book in colleges since before there even was a discipline known as urban studies. In it, she argues that planning and development in cities should take into account neighborhoods and human scale. Clearly ahead of her time, Jacobs was in the forefront, along with her neighbors, in the legendary battle against master builder Robert Moses, who wanted to build a superhighway through the glorious Washington Square Park. Jacobs and her neighbors ultimately handed Moses a rare setback, and the park still stands intact. Jacobs moved to Toronto in the late 1960s, where she lived for the rest of her life, writing and publishing on economics and urban issues. |
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