num_pages: 127
description: In 1961 Jane Jacobs' book The Death and Life of Great American Cities  revolutionized the fields of city planning and city architecture. Jacobs perceived that the new structures being built to replace the aging housing of older cities were often far worse. This book reveals how Jacobs changed the way the world thought forever.
language: English
title: Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of the Death and Life of Great American Cities
publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher