The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 01‏/12‏/1992 - 480 من الصفحات

Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.

"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." —The New York Times

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 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured.

In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. 

 

المحتوى

Introduction
3
Part One THE PECULIAR NATURE OF CITIES
27
safety
29
contact
55
assimilating children
74
The uses of neighborhood parks
89
The uses of city neighborhoods
112
Part Two THE CONDITIONS FOR CITY DIVERSITY
141
The generators of diversity
143
The need for primary mixed uses
152
19222
178
Subsidizing dwellings
321
Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles
338
Index
449
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JANE JACOBS was the legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a work that has never gone out of print and that has transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works include The Economy of Cities, Systems of Survival, The Nature of Economies and Dark Age Ahead. She died in 2006.

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