The death and life of great American cities
By: Jane Jacobs ; with a new introduction by Jason Epstein and a foreword by the author
Edition: 50th anniversary ed., 2011 Modern Library ed.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 598
ISBN-13: 9780679644330
Subjects: City planning; Urban policy; Urban renewal
Description: The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. ... [It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments." Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jane Jacobs's tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable. --- Book Description.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Random House, 1961.

Includes index.