Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity.
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. At the end of January, 1961, Jane Jacobs sent the completed manuscript for The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the deeply studied, counter-modern treatise on the value of the traditionally dense and diverse urban street, to her editor, Jason Epstein, and returned to work as a critic at Architectural Forum. 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. Her 1961 treatise, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, became one. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was an urban writer and activist who championed new. Boards have lighjt shelf-wear present to the extremities. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. First Modern Library Edition/First Printing.
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