The Death and Life of Great American CitiesRandom House, 2002 - 458 من الصفحات 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....ÝIt ̈ 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. |
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... administrative traits . " Hypocrisy , " " bureaucratic jealousy , " " vested interest in the status quo , " " they don't care , " are words and phrases that constantly crop up in despairing descriptions by citizens , telling of their ...
... administrative traits . " Hypocrisy , " " bureaucratic jealousy , " " vested interest in the status quo , " " they don't care , " are words and phrases that constantly crop up in despairing descriptions by citizens , telling of their ...
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... administrative districts for American cities new , either . It has been proposed from time to time by citizens ' groups in New York it was suggested in 1947 by the competent and well - informed Citizens ' Union , which went so far as ...
... administrative districts for American cities new , either . It has been proposed from time to time by citizens ' groups in New York it was suggested in 1947 by the competent and well - informed Citizens ' Union , which went so far as ...
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... administrative crazy quilt even madder than that formed by the governmental fragments that lie outside it . The voters sensibly decline to federate into a system where big- ness means local helplessness , ruthless , oversimplified ...
... administrative crazy quilt even madder than that formed by the governmental fragments that lie outside it . The voters sensibly decline to federate into a system where big- ness means local helplessness , ruthless , oversimplified ...
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