The Death and Life of Great American Cities : 50th Anniversary Edition
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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.
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Product details
- Hardback | 640 pages
- 128 x 193 x 38mm | 578g
- 12 Dec 2017
- Random House USA Inc
- Modern Library Inc
- New York, NY, United States
- English
- 50th Anniversary ed.
- 0679644334
- 9780679644330
- 54,705
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Review Text
One of the most remarkable books ever written about the city . . . a primary work. The research apparatus is not pretentious it is the eye and the heart but it has given us a magnificent study of what gives life and spirit to the city. William H. Whyte, author of City: Rediscovering the Center
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Review quote
"One of the most remarkable books ever written about the city . . . a primary work. The research apparatus is not pretentious--it is the eye and the heart--but it has given us a magnificent study of what gives life and spirit to the city."--William H. Whyte, author of City: Rediscovering the Center
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About Jane Jacobs
Jason Epstein is the recipient of many awards, including the National Book Award for Distinguished Service to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle, and the Curtis Benjamin Award given by the American Association of Publishers for enriching the world of books. For many years he was editorial director of Random House. He is the author of Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future and Eating.
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