Description
On this book, Jane Jacobs, building at the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the sophisticated way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of products and the ever-changing tide of imports. The use of case studies of developing cities within the ancient, pre-agricultural world, and recent cities at the decline, like the financially irresponsible New York City of the mid-sixties, Jacobs identifies the primary drivers of urban prosperity and growth, regularly by way of counterintuitive and revelatory lessons.