The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Hardcover

Jacobs, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375508732 ISBN 13: 9780375508738

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2002

Synopsis

A close-up look at American urban history and design offers penetrating analyses of the functions and organization of city neighborhoods, the forces of deterioration and regeneration, and the necessary planning innovations. Reissue. 10,000 first printing.

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Review:

"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" (Harrison Salisbury New York Times)

"One of the most remarkable books ever written about the city... a primary work. The research apparatus is not pretentious it is the eye and the heart but it has given us a magnificent study of what gives life and spirit to the city" (William H. Whyte, author of The Organization Man)

"Perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning... Jacobs has a powerful sense of narrative, a lively wit, a talent for surprise and the ability to touch the emotions as well as the mind" (New York Times Book Review)

"An immensely provocative and rewarding book... It challenges comfortable assumptions...but it does so in a manner that is neither rancorous nor contentions" (Jonathan Yardley Washington Post)

Book Description:

A groundbreaking critique of 20th-century urban planning and a classic of post-war social thought.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375508732
• ISBN 13: 9780375508738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 458