The death and life of great American cities / Jane Jacobs ; with a new foreword by the author.
Material type: TextPublication details: 1993. The Modern Library, New York :Edition: Modern Library editionDescription: xviv, 598 p. ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780679600473 (hbk.)
- Death and life of great American cities [Other title]
- 23 307.760973 JAC 000856
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Book | Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore | 307.760973 JAC 000856 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000856 |
Originally published: New York : Random House, 1961.
Includes index.
Thirty years after its publication, this book 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.--From publisher description.
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