An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities : The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Free delivery worldwide
Available. Expected delivery to the United States in 6-11 business days.
Not ordering to the United States? Click here.
Description
Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II. They believed that the efficient movement of cars was of more value in the development of US cities than the everyday lives of the people living there. By carefully examining their relevance in her 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs dismantles these arguments by highlighting their shortsightedness. She evaluates the information to hand and comes to a very different conclusion, that urban planners ruin great cities, because they don't understand that it is a city's social interaction that makes it great. Proposals and policies that are drawn from planning theory do not consider the social dynamics of city life. They are in thrall to futuristic fantasies of a modern way of living that bears no relation to reality, or to the desires of real people living in real spaces. Professionals lobby for separation and standardization, splitting commercial, residential, industrial, and cultural spaces. But a truly visionary approach to urban planning should incorporate spaces with mixed uses, together with short, walkable blocks, large concentrations of people, and a mix of new and old buildings. This creates true urban vitality.
show more
show more
Product details
- Paperback | 98 pages
- 129 x 198 x 5.08mm | 113g
- 15 Jul 2017
- Macat International Limited
- London, United Kingdom
- English
- 1912128594
- 9781912128594
- 714,812
Other books in this series
An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities
15 Jul 2017
Paperback
US$11.75
An Analysis of Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
15 Jul 2017
Paperback
US$12.61
Table of contents
Ways in to the Text Who was Jane Jacobs? What does The Death and Life of Great American Cities say? Why does The Death and Life of Great American Cities Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited
show more
show more
About Martin Fuller
Dr Martin Fuller holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge for research that focused on the Sociology of Art in New York and Berlin. He is currently a researcher at the Technische Universitat, Berlin.
Dr Ryan Moore holds PhDs in Sociology and Cultural Analysis from the University of California, San Diego. He has taught at universities across America and is the author of Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis (New York: NYU Press, 2009).
show more
Dr Ryan Moore holds PhDs in Sociology and Cultural Analysis from the University of California, San Diego. He has taught at universities across America and is the author of Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis (New York: NYU Press, 2009).
show more
