The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series)

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Foreword: Jane Jacobs
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 1993-02-09
ISBN: 0679600477
Number of pages: 624
Publisher: Modern Library

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Book Review: The triumph of common sense
Summary: 5 Stars

In an age when architects and planners were spouting all kinds of brave-new-world nonsense (or mindlessly absorbing it, or even worse - building it), Jacobs burst onto the scene with an incredible dose of sanity mixed with common sense and wisdom, carefully observing the urban environment and drawing a host of remarkably sensible conclusions. For some reason we architects seem always at risk of believing our own nuttiest fantasies. Jacobs is a perennial corrective.
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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....[It] 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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