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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美國著名城市規劃學傢簡·雅各布斯曾說過——“偉大的街道造就偉大的城市”。任何城市都是由局部的街道所構成,而街道裏則流淌著城市的文化基因。街道、建築,以及圍繞它們所産生的故事、傳說、文化、敘事,往往構成我們對一座城市的基本認知。 其實,如果能夠以百年、甚至韆年...
評分【平媒已刊】 上兩個禮拜,我所住的錢塘江邊某條路西段唯一的一傢書店關門歇業瞭。這對於生活在其間幾個小區的人們來說,實在算不上一件大事。畢竟我們買書的渠道要遠不止在一間十幾平方米的書店裏駐足翻閱然後挑選購買這樣一種有限的方式。 我的朋友就住在書店南...
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...
評分我並沒有讀完這本書,在讀完一半的時候,我就停下來瞭,並不是因為這本書不夠精彩,可能是我跟不上作者的節奏瞭。作者敘述和討論的節奏比較緩慢,切入點都是美國的細小的街區生活。我本來不想寫對於此書的評論,雖然作者對城市觀點是反對學院城市規劃原理的,是革新的,但...
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...
圖書標籤: 城市規劃 城市 社會學 建築 美國 architecture urban-criticism planning
a simple book widens my pt of view to streets & cities. one of my FYP references
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ww之前看到有誰把Jacobs, Rachel Carson和Friedan放在一起說是三個改變瞭時代的偉大的女性。其實完全是個外行在讀一本外行寫的書,但是真的有趣易懂,超級棒。"...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. "
評分: TU984.712/J17
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