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    Vital little plans : the short works of Jane Jacobs / edited by Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring.

    • Title:[Works. Selections]
      Vital little plans : the short works of Jane Jacobs / edited by Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring.
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    • Author/Creator:Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Zipp, Samuel, editor.
      Storring, Nathan, editor.
    • Published/Created:New York : Random House, [2016]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006.
      City planning--United States.
      City planning.
      Sociology, Urban--United States.
      Sociology, Urban.
      Urban policy--United States.
      Urban policy.
    • Edition:First edition.
    • Description:xliii, 490 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
    • Summary:A survey of Jacobs's career in forty short pieces that have never been collected in a single volume: essays, articles, speeches, interviews, and lectures, covering her work in urban and economic planning as well as globalization, feminism, and universal health care.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-468) and index.
    • ISBN:9780399589607 (hbk)
      0399589600 (hbk)
      9780399589614 (ebook)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE CITY NATURALIST, 1934
      1952
      While Arranging Verses for a Book
      New York Herald Tribune, 1935
      Diamonds in the Tough
      Vogue, 1936
      Flowers Come to Town
      Vogue, 1937
      Caution, Men Working
      Cue, 1940
      30,000 Unemployed and 7,000 Empty Houses in Scranton, Neglected City
      Iron Age, 1943
      Islands the Boats Pass By
      Excerpt from Harper's Bazaar, 1947
      No Virtue in Meek Conformity
      Foreword to State Department Loyalty Security Board Interrogatory, 1952
      pt. TWO CITY BUILDING, 1952
      1965
      Philadelphia's Redevelopment: A Progress Report
      Architectural Forum, 1955
      Pavement Pounders and Olympians
      Architectural Forum, 1956
      Missing Link in City Redevelopment
      Architectural Forum, 1956
      Our "Surplus" Land
      Architectural Forum, 1957
      Reason, Emotion, Pressure: There Is No Other Recipe
      Village Voice, 1957
      Metropolitan Government
      Architectural Forum, 1957
      Downtown Is for People
      Fortune, 1958
      Living Network of Relationships
      Speech at the New School for Social Research, New York, 1958
      Great Unbalance
      Speech at the White House, Washington, D.C., 1964
      Decline of Function
      Architects' Year Book, 1965
      pt. THREE HOW NEW WORK BEGINS, 1965
      1984
      Self-Generating Growth of Cities
      Speech at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, 1967
      On Civil Disobedience
      Correspondence with The New York Times Magazine, 1967
      Strategies for Helping Cities
      American Economic Review, 1969
      City Getting Hooked on the Expressway Drug
      Globe and Mail, 1969
      Real Problem of Cities
      Speech at the Inaugural Earth Week Teach-In, Milwaukee, 1970
      Can Big Plans Solve the Problem of Renewal?
      Speech at the Residential Areas and Urban Renewal Conference, Hamburg, 1981
      pt. FOUR ECOLOGY OF CITIES, 1984
      2000
      Responsibilities of Cities
      Speech at the Royal Palace, Amsterdam, 1984
      Pedaling Together
      Speech at the Spokespeople Conference, Toronto, 1985
      Foreword to The Death and Life of Great American Cities
      Modern Library Edition, 1992
      Two Ways to Live
      Interview with David Warren, The Idler, 1993
      First Letter to the Consumer Policy Institute
      Energy Probe Research Foundation Newsletter, 1994
      Women as Natural Entrepreneurs
      Speech at the Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, Toronto, 1994
      Market Nurturing Run Amok
      Openair-Market Net, 1995
      Against Amalgamation
      Testimony Before Committee of Ontario Legislature, 1997
      pt. FIVE SOME PATTERNS OF FUTURE DEVELOPMENT, 2000
      2006
      Time and Change as Neighborhood Allies
      Vincent Scully Prize Lecture, Washington, D.C., 2000
      Canada's Hub Cities
      Speech at the C5 Conference, Winnipeg, 2001
      Efficiency and the Commons
      Conversation with Janice Gross Stein, Grazing on the Commons Conference, Toronto, 2001
      Sparrow Principle
      Excerpt from "Urban Economy and Development," Interview with the World Bank, Toronto, 2002
      Uncovering the Economy: A New Hypothesis
      Excerpt from an Unpublished Work, 2004
      End of the Plantation Age
      Lewis Mumford Lecture, New York, 2004.
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