The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
Nonfiction
James Mustich
Jul 28, 2018
Published in 1961, The Death and Life of Great American Cities would prove to be one of the most influential books on urban planning and policy ever written. Just as important for readers, its author’s powers of perception are allied to considerable literary gifts, and so its pages are animated with descriptions of city life as vivid as any ever penned. Moreover, the book’s influence has extended far beyond the strictly urban beat, for Jacobs’s insights into the way cities work—from the uses of sidewalks to the nature and nurture of neighborhoods—have much to tell us about the way we live networked lives.
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Matthew Bennett
Jun 23, 2020
Great introduction to understanding the life of cities.
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Carol Ann Weaver
Jul 20
I was excited to read this because she was the antidote to the books about Robert Moses that I read a few years ago. She was the major challenger to his desire to build a highway through Greenwich Village. But my initially excitement was quelled by tedium. It was too much, and it was also really old data and circumstances. It would be so great to have some kind of update to this book.
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Carol Ann Weaver
Jul 20
initial not initially
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