Jane Jacobs, OC, O.Ont (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-born Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States. The book has been credited with reaching beyond planning issues to influence the spirit of the times.
Along with her well-known printed works, Jacobs is equally well-known for organizing grassroots efforts to block urban-renewal projects that would have destroyed local neighborhoods. She was instrumental in the eventual cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, and after moving to Canada in 1968, equally influential in canceling the Spadina Expressway and the associated network of highways under construction.
发表于2024-04-27
The Death and Life of Great American Cities 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
【平媒已刊】 上两个礼拜,我所住的钱塘江边某条路西段唯一的一家书店关门歇业了。这对于生活在其间几个小区的人们来说,实在算不上一件大事。毕竟我们买书的渠道要远不止在一间十几平方米的书店里驻足翻阅然后挑选购买这样一种有限的方式。 我的朋友就住在书店南...
评分看完每一章后,拿中文简单归纳了一下。 [1.前言] 表达对当下(当时)城市规划的不满,欲提出自己的新规则。首先提出城市与郊区/城镇不同,城市的本质是人的集合,显要特点是大,不能将城市以“田园”的形式处理,即分散住户,大面积带入自然特征。反对“自然”、“草地”即是人...
评分【平媒已刊】 上两个礼拜,我所住的钱塘江边某条路西段唯一的一家书店关门歇业了。这对于生活在其间几个小区的人们来说,实在算不上一件大事。毕竟我们买书的渠道要远不止在一间十几平方米的书店里驻足翻阅然后挑选购买这样一种有限的方式。 我的朋友就住在书店南...
评分我并没有读完这本书,在读完一半的时候,我就停下来了,并不是因为这本书不够精彩,可能是我跟不上作者的节奏了。作者叙述和讨论的节奏比较缓慢,切入点都是美国的细小的街区生活。我本来不想写对于此书的评论,虽然作者对城市观点是反对学院城市规划原理的,是革新的,但...
评分《美国大城市的死与生(the Death and Life of Great American Cities)》出版于1961年,从此后就变成建筑界、城市规划领域最著名的书之一。我的学生时代一直感到奇怪,怎么一本各个老师都会提起的书却从来没在图书馆里看到。原来上世纪八十年代,清华大学的汪坦教授曾主持翻译...
图书标签: 城市规划 城市 社会学 建筑 美国 architecture urban-criticism planning
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while 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 indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.
最后一个chapter没太看完 不是建筑师不是规划师视角内的城市规划看法
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评分重读一遍才发现这本书是越读越有味道的,不禁又给加了一星。雅各布斯被称为城市空想家,她的很多观点确实从操作性来说与现实有悖,但不可否认的是她提供可一种创造性的理论。雅各布斯批判正统,几乎批判了我们所熟知、钟爱、崇拜的许多城市规划领域的巨擘,在她看来,这些所谓的专家不过就像盲人摸象(其实谁不是这样呢),程式、同质、平均化的规划是雅各布斯极力反对的,跑去乡村捣鼓更被她看作愚蠢,她认为这种忽略社会资本的简单化操作是在自掘坟墓,关注城市居民的实际体验和生活过程才是拯救城市之亡的良药。
评分social and anthropological approach towards city planning. 很少看这种书会被感动到的感觉
评分作者真是太能BB了,完全不能节制自己的表达。基本上核心观点看“First、Second……”这些段落就够了,我宁愿去做一百篇雅思阅读也不想在一个观点中看见这么多废话…
The Death and Life of Great American Cities 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书