Death and Life of Great American Cities

Name: Death and Life of Great American Cities
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ISBN: 9780679741954

ISBN-10: 067974195X

ISBN-13: 9780679741954

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jane Jacobs

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A classic since its publication in 1961, this book is the defintive statement on American cities: what makes them safe, how they function, and why all too many official attempts at saving them have failed.

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.16" wide x 8.00" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 0.792

Jane Jacobs lives in Toronto.




Introduction



The Peculiar Nature of Cities



The uses of sidewalks: safety



The uses of sidewalks: contact



The uses of sidewalks: assimilating children



The uses of neighborhood parks



The uses of city neighborhoods



The Conditions for City Diversity



The generators of diversity



The need for primary mixed uses



The need for small blocks



The need for aged buildings



The need for concentration



Some myths about diversity



Forces of Decline and Regeneration



The self-destruction of diversity



The curse of border vacuums



Unslumming and slumming



Gradual money and cataclysmic money



Different Tactics



Subsidizing dwellings



Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles



Visual order: its limitations and possibilities



Salvaging projects



Governing and planning districts



The kind of problem a city is


Index