[PDF] The Death and Life of Great American Cities

• Author : Jane Jacobs
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release Date : 2016-07-20
• ISBN : 9780525432852

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

• Author : Martin Fuller,Ryan Moore
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release Date : 2017-07-05
• ISBN : 9781351353052

Despite having no formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II. They believed that the efficient movement of cars was of more value in the development of US cities than the everyday lives of the people living there. By carefully examining their relevance in her 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs dismantles these arguments by

• Author : Michael H. Carriere,David Schalliol
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release Date : 2021-04-18
• ISBN : 9780226727363

In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking—small-scale interventions aimed at encouraging greater equity and community engagement in growth and renewal. But the projects that were the most successful at achieving these lofty ambitions weren’t usually established by politicians, urban planners, or real estate developers; they were initiated by community activists, artists, and neighbors. In order to figure out why, The City Creative mounts a comprehensive

• Author : James A. Clapp
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2017-07-12
• ISBN : 9781351485043

The City is the best, funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking compilation ever assembled on the urban scene. James A. Clapp has arranged more than three thousand quotations—epigrams, epithets, verses, proverbs, scriptural references, witticisms, lyrics, literary references, and historical observations—on urban life from antiquity until the present. These quotes are drawn from the written and spoken words of more than one thousand writers throughout history. This volume, with contributions from speakers, poets, song writers, politicians philosophers, scientists, religious leaders,

• Author : Gary Bridge,Sophie Watson
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2010-03-08
• ISBN : 9781405189835

Updated to reflect the most current thinking on urban studies, this new edition of "The Blackwell City Reader" brings together a wide range of essential readings relating to the analysis and experience of cities across the globe. Selections are carefully gathered from a variety of academic disciplines ranging from architecture, sociology, and literature to cultural studies, philosophy, and even psychoanalysis to provide the most diverse perspectives and in-depth coverage of the field. The new edition incorporates major developments in the

• Author : Sharon Zukin
• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• Release Date : 1989
• ISBN : 0813513898

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• Author : Joan Copjec,Michael Sorkin
• Publisher : Verso
• Release Date : 1999
• ISBN : 1859841341

Giving Ground is prompted by two phenomena whose paradoxical convergence is currently altering our experience and conception of urban relations and city planning. On the one hand, forces of globalisation push towards conditions of homogenisation and deterritorialisation, while, on the other, a surging politics of identity barricades various groups behind particular claims and ignites violent persecutions. The covert relations between these phenomena is the focus of the essays in this volume. Giving Ground seeks to address a number of broad

• Author : Gary Bridge,Sophie Watson
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2002-08-16
• ISBN : 0631235787

A Companion to the City provides the reader with an indispensable and authoritative overview of the key debates, controversies, and questions concerning the city from a variety of theoretical vantage points with an international perspective. Indispensable companion for students of the City. Multidisciplinary approach of interest across several fields. Includes contributions from major scholars in the field.

• Author : Duncan Bell,Bernardo Zacka
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release Date : 2020-02-20
• ISBN : 9781350103757

What can political theory teach us about architecture, and what can it learn from paying closer attention to architecture? The essays assembled in this volume begin from a common postulate: that architecture is not merely a backdrop to political life but a political force in its own right. Each in their own way, they aim to give countenance to that claim, and to show how our thinking about politics can be enriched by reflecting on the built environment. The collection

• Author : Michael Larice,Elizabeth Macdonald
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2013-05-07
• ISBN : 9781136205668

The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent writings by Waldheim, Koolhaas, and Sorkin. Following the widespread success of the first edition of The Urban Design Reader, this updated edition continues to provide the most important historical material of the urban design field,

• Author : Jane Jacobs
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1984
• ISBN : OCLC:993846082

• Author : Timothy Mennel,Jo Steffens,Christopher Klemek
• Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
• Release Date : 2007-12-19
• ISBN : 1568987714

"This book is an attack on current city planning and rebuilding." From this first sentence of the seminal 1961 bookThe Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs gave voice to those who believed the bulldozing, postwar policies of urban renewal were a dangerous threat to city life. She spent the next forty-five years challenging citizens to stand up for vibrant, mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods such as New York's Greenwich Village. Jane Jacobs's death in 2006 occasioned the beginnings of a critical

• Author : Michael W. Mehaffy
• Publisher : Off The Common Books / Sustasis Press
• Release Date : 2017-10-09
• ISBN : 0987654321XXX

Cities are experiencing a renaissance today, because we've begun to understand how they really work -- and we've begun to make them work better for people. This book is a lively, readable account of two revealing figures in the history of that renaissance: the urban economist Jane Jacobs and the architect Christopher Alexander. Their key insights have shaped several generations of scholars, professionals, and activists. However, as the book argues, this renaissance is still immature, and more must be done

• Author : Susan M. Wachter,Kimberly A. Zeuli
• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
• Release Date : 2013-11-14
• ISBN : 9780812208887

Small and midsized cities played a key role in the Industrial Revolution in the United States as hubs for the shipping, warehousing, and distribution of manufactured products. But as the twentieth century brought cheaper transportation and faster communication, these cities were hit hard by population losses and economic decline. In the twenty-first century, many former industrial hubs—from Springfield to Wichita, from Providence to Columbus—are finding pathways to reinvention. With innovative urban policies and design, once-declining cities are becoming

• Author : Luis M. A. Bettencourt
• Publisher : MIT Press
• Release Date : 2021-08-17
• ISBN : 9780262366434

A novel, integrative approach to cities as complex adaptive systems, applicable to issues ranging from innovation to economic prosperity to settlement patterns. Human beings around the world increasingly live in urban environments. In Introduction to Urban Science, Luis Bettencourt takes a novel, integrative approach to understanding cities as complex adaptive systems, claiming that they require us to frame the field of urban science in a way that goes beyond existing theory in such traditional disciplines as sociology, geography, and economics.