Jane Jacobs
Subtitle: urban visionary
By: Alice Sparberg Alexiou.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780813537924
Subjects: Jacobs, Jane, 1916-; City planners -- Biography.; Women city planners -- Biography.; Sociology, Urban.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Scranton, Pennsylvania; title: New York City; title: Urban renewal; title: The housewife with no college degree; title: The death and life of great American cities; title: Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village activist, part one; title: Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village activist, part two; title: Jane Jacobs, race, and gentrification: an assessment; title: Toronto the good; title: Economist without portfolio; title: Conclusions about Jane Jacobs; title: Notes.