Description: Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities."The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating and exciting study of this [great problem] which I have seen. It fairly crackles with bright honesty and common sense." —The New York TimesA 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.
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Brand: Vintage
MPN: Does not apply
Color: Cream
Type: ABIS_BOOK
Author: Jacobs, Jane
PartNumber: 3122499
Edition: Reissue
Language: English
Book Title: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Binding: Paperback
Genre: SOCIAL SCIENCE
Label: Vintage
Languages: english
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number of Pages: 458
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Product Group: Book
Product Type Name: ABIS_BOOK
Publication Date: 1992-12-01
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: 1992-12-01
Studio: Vintage
Item Length: 7.9 inches
Item Height: 1.3 inches
Item Width: 5.1 inches
Topic: Cities
Format: Paperback
Publication Year: 1992
