The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition (Modern Library)

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Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book’s original editor, who provides an intimate viewpoint on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation and lasting influence of this classic.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities was once described by The New York Times as “possibly essentially the most influential single work in the history of town planning. . . . [It] will also be seen in a much larger context. It’s to start with a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as one of those ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by individuals who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book’s arguments.” Jane Jacobs, an editor and creator 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.

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