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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Modern Library Series)
	Creator: Jane Jacobs Publisher: Modern Library Category: Book List Price: ~~$21.95~~ Buy New: $12.50 You Save: $9.45 (43%) New (30) Used (12) Collectible (1) from $12.50 Rating: 64 reviews Sales Rank: 3888 Media: Hardcover Pages: 624 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3 Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5 x 1.9 ISBN: 0679600477 Dewey Decimal Number: 307.760973 EAN: 9780679600473 ASIN: 0679600477 Publication Date: February 9, 1993 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


Editorial Reviews: Product Description Thirty years after its publication, *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, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It is sensible, knowledgeable, readable, indispensable. The author has written a new foreword for this Modern Library edition.

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