The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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.

出版者:Vintage

作者:Jane Jacobs

页数:458

出版时间:1992-12-1

价格:USD 16.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780679741954

图书标签:城市规划城市社会学建筑美国architectureurban-criticismplanning

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.

读后感

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用户评价

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…

a simple book widens my pt of view to streets & cities. one of my FYP references

a punch in the face, even today

ww之前看到有谁把Jacobs, Rachel Carson和Friedan放在一起说是三个改变了时代的伟大的女性。其实完全是个外行在读一本外行写的书，但是真的有趣易懂，超级棒。"...principle is the need of cities for a most intricate and close-grained diversity of uses that give each other constant mutual support, both economically and socially. "

a simple book widens my pt of view to streets & cities. one of my FYP references