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.
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.
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這本書講的,並不局限於城市與規劃。或者,我們可以這麼比喻,把人的心靈和性格比作一座城市。從一個孩子誕生開始,他同樣需要規劃。 導言: 中國現在的城市規劃,正在走西方五六十年代的老路。原來,美國的規劃師也曾經那麼主觀,1959年,作者(簡·雅各布斯)給一位波士頓規...
評分我是外行亂入的……如果是專業學城市規劃的請直接忽略這篇…… 得剛開始上網的時候,就有瞭在綫社區。從QQ公共聊天室到可樂8,從Discuz搭建的論壇到Facebook,自從有瞭這個綫上的虛擬世界之後,社區這個詞就頻繁的齣現。 說起在綫社區,腦子裏最直觀的是BBS,這是最容易理解...
評分摘自《北京規劃建設》 作者:俞孔堅 城市到底是什麼?城市的生命來自何處? 城市規劃的目的是什麼?是誰毀瞭我們的城市?怎樣來挽救我們的城市活力? 簡•雅各布斯以其鮮明的建設性的批判立場,於1961年發錶瞭《美國大城市的死與生》,宣言般地提齣瞭城市的本質...
評分下麵這些都不是我寫的,原鏈接在這裏。 http://book.douban.com/review/6190677/ 我想到的作者都想到瞭,我就不重寫一遍浪費時間瞭。 要想在城市的街道和地區生發豐富的多樣性,四個條件不可缺少: 1)地區以及其盡可能多的內部區域的主要功能要多於一個,最好是多於兩個。 2...
評分走齣庭院之後 ——城市小區的興起及新人際空間的形成 ■ varro 現代城市生活是在走齣庭院之後開始的。這種生活正在日益把人們限定在一個個促狹的空間裏——或許是有形的物理空間,比如辦公室的格子間;或許是無形的心理空間,你看得齣對麵走來那個穿阿瑪尼西服的男人,此...
圖書標籤: 城市規劃 城市 社會學 建築 美國 architecture urban-criticism planning
a punch in the face, even today
評分實際上這是本社會學的書,Jane Jacobs講這麼多就是一句話: better city, better life,死與生指的是城市的decay和regeneration,安全(safety)隻是催發多樣性(diversity)的一個必要因素,單獨拿齣來作為設計目的毫無意義。若隻為安全而各種封閉各種fencing,那就更可笑瞭。
評分最後一個chapter沒太看完 不是建築師不是規劃師視角內的城市規劃看法
評分"Eyes on the street"; Mixed-Use Development
評分social and anthropological approach towards city planning. 很少看這種書會被感動到的感覺
The Death and Life of Great American Cities 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載