Eyes on the street
Subtitle: the life of Jane Jacobs
By: Robert Kanigel
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780307961907
Subjects: Urban renewal; City planners; City planning; Urban Sociology; Philosophy; Biography; History
Description: "Chronicles the life of a noted activist who wrote seven groundbreaking books, including her most famous, The Death and Life of Great American Cities; saved neighborhoods; stopped expressways; was arrested twice; and engaged at home and on the streets in thousands of debates -- all of which she won,"--NoveList.
Notes: Endpapers are maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An uncredentialed woman, 1916-1954. A generous place to live; title: Outlaw; title: Ladies' nest of owls, and other milestones in the education of Miss Jane Butzner; title: The great bewildering world; title: Morningside Heights; title: Women's work; title: Amerika; title: Trushchoby; title: In the big world, 1954-1968. Disenchantment; title: Ten minutes at Harvard; title: A person worth talking to; title: A manuscript to show us; title: Mother Jacobs of Hudson Street; title: The physical fallacy; title: West Village warrior; title: Luncheon at the White House; title: Gas masks at the Pentagon; title: On Albany Avenue, 1968-2006. A circle of their own; title: Settling in; title: Our Jane; title: Flummoxed; title: Adam, Karl, and Jane; title: Webs of trust; title: Ideas that matter; title: Civilization's child.