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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... tion are not renewed and owners are frequently compelled to resort to moneylenders who exact interest as high as 20 % [ Note : this is conservative ] for short - term loans . . There are owners who desire to do more than just install ...
... tion are not renewed and owners are frequently compelled to resort to moneylenders who exact interest as high as 20 % [ Note : this is conservative ] for short - term loans . . There are owners who desire to do more than just install ...
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... tion up and down the line of fractionated vertical responsibilities is simple in comparison , and less vital too . Yet vertical coordina- tion is made easiest by the administrative structure , and all other kinds more difficult , with ...
... tion up and down the line of fractionated vertical responsibilities is simple in comparison , and less vital too . Yet vertical coordina- tion is made easiest by the administrative structure , and all other kinds more difficult , with ...
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... tion in a handful of places , the administrators of this program promptly discovered they could get nothing useful done unless they made special and exceptional arrangements with at least the buildings department , the fire department ...
... tion in a handful of places , the administrators of this program promptly discovered they could get nothing useful done unless they made special and exceptional arrangements with at least the buildings department , the fire department ...
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