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| The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Author: Jane Jacobs
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: 1992-12-01
ISBN-10: 067974195X
ISBN-13: 9780679741954
List Price: $15.95
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A classic since its publication in 1961, this book is the defintive statement on American cities: what makes them safe, how they function, and why all too many official attempts at saving them have failed.
Great read
| Customer Rating: | | I bought this book as a required reading for school. It was very easy to read and covered many interesting topics. I would recommend this book to anyone that is interested in learning more about the urban environment. |
The triumph of common sense
| Customer Rating: | In an age when architects and planners were spouting all kinds of brave-new-world nonsense (or mindlessly absorbing it, or even worse - building it), Jacobs burst onto the scene with an incredible dose of sanity mixed with common sense and wisdom, carefully observing the urban environment and drawing a host of remarkably sensible conclusions. For some reason we architects seem always at risk of believing our own nuttiest fantasies. Jacobs is a perennial corrective.
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Read it!
| Customer Rating: | | Still relevant, still useful....and still ignored by the common city engineer. Our city's planners need to re-read this sucker. |
Read it
| Customer Rating: | | This is a book that relates to designers, and city planners as well as the "un-educated". Reading this book will certainly inform one on the purpose and importance of city planning. |
It'll make a city slicker out of the most ardent farm boy
| Customer Rating: | | This book will give you a reason to want to go visit the city, or to go out and get into the city you already live in. Her reference to the "ballet of the sidewalks" gives a whole new twist to what is going on in a busy downtown. City planners, take note! |
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