Vital little plans
Subtitle: the short works of Jane Jacobs
By: edited by Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring
Contributors: Zipp, Samuel, editor; Storring, Nathan, editor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780399589607
Subjects: City planning; Urban policy; Urban Sociology
Description: A survey of Jacobs's career in forty short pieces that have never been collected in a single volume: essays, articles, speeches, interviews, and lectures, covering her work in urban and economic planning as well as globalization, feminism, and universal health care.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-468) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one: A city naturalist, 1934-1952; title: While arranging verses for a book; title: Diamonds in the tough; title: Flowers come to town; title: Caution, men working; title: 30,000 unemployed and 7,000 empty houses in Scranton, neglected city; title: Islands the boats pass by; title: No virtue in meek conformity; title: Part two: City building, 1952-1965; title: Philadelphia's redevelopment: a progress report; title: Pavement pounders and Olympians; title: The missing link in city redevelopment; title: Our "surplus" land; title: Reason, emotion, pressure: there is no other recipe; title: Metropolitan government; title: Downtown is for people; title: A living network of relationships; title: A great unbalance; title: The decline of function; title: Part three: How new work begins, 1965-1984; title: The self-generating growth of cities; title: On civil disobedience; title: Strategies for helping cities; title: A city getting hooked on the expressway drug; title: The real problem of cities; title: Can big plans solve the problem of renewal?; title: Part four: The ecology of cities, 1984-2000; title: The responsibilities of cities; title: Pedaling together; title: Foreword to The Death and Life of Great American Cities; title: Two ways to live; title: First letter to the Consumer Policy Institute; title: Women as natural entrepreneurs; title: Market nurturing run amok; title: Against amalgamation; title: Part five: Some patterns of future development, 2000-2006; title: Time and change as neighborhood allies; title: Canada's hub cities; title: Efficiency and the commons; title: The sparrow principle; title: Uncovering the economy: a new hypothesis; title: The end of the plantation age.