The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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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... more
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Edward Glaeser Jacobs pointed out innumerable ways in which people are connected by proximity and the virtues of dense living. (Source)
Leo Hollis This book sums up these new ideas of putting people first – that the city is complex but not a place that needs to be rationalised. (Source)
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities is ranked in the following categories:
- #3 in Architecture
- #47 in Civics
- #45 in Design
- #10 in Geography
- #30 in Karma
- #87 in New York
- #39 in New York City
- #79 in Real Estate
- #93 in Social Sciences
- #55 in Sociology
- #44 in Sustainability
- #12 in Urban
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