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• Title:The death and life of great American cities / Jane Jacobs ; with a new introduction by Jason Epstein and a foreword by the author.
  
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• Author/Creator:Jacobs, Jane, 1916-2006, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Epstein, Jason, writer of introduction.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Modern Library, 2011.
  

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• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--United States.
  Urban renewal--United States.
  Urban policy--United States.
  
• Edition:50th anniversary edition.
  
• Description:xxxvi, 598 pages ; 19 cm
  
• Summary: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. --- Book Description.
  
• Notes:Originally published: New York : Random House, 1961.
  Includes index.
  
• ISBN:0679644334 (hbk.)
  9780679644330 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Part one: The peculiar nature of cities. The uses of sidewalks: safety
  The uses of sidewals: contact
  The uses of sidewalks: assimilating children
  The uses of neighborhood parks
  The uses of city neighborhoods
  Part two: The conditions for city diversity. The generators of diversity
  The need for primary mixed uses
  The need for small blocks
  The need for aged buildings
  The need for concentration
  Some myths about diversity
  Part three: Forces of decline and regeneration. The self-destruction of diversity
  The curse of border vacuums
  Unslumming and slumming
  Gradual money and cataclysmic money
  Part four: Different tactics. Subsidizing dwellings
  Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles
  Visual order: its limitations and possibilities
  Salvaging projects
  Governing and planning districts
  The kind of problem a city is.