The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

472 pages first pub 1961 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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A 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 196...

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