The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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A right away and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning on this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, transform the usual against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets protected or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves throughout the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished at the same time as others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly offended, and all the time keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs’s monumental work provides an very important framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.

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