The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series) Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:4386462 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4386462 N2 - Thirty years after its publication, **_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, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It is sensible, knowledgeable, readable, indispensable. The author has written a new foreword for this Modern Library edition. SN - 0679600477 TI - The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series) PB - Modern Library KW - cities KW - dissertation KW - public KW - research KW - sociology AU - Jacobs, Jane PY - 1993/02/09/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0679600477 ER -