{"title":"Jane Jacobs","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities-50th-anniversary-edition-jane-jacobs-hardcover","title":"The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition -- Jane Jacobs, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Death and Life of Great American Cities, \u003c\/i\u003efeatures a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book's original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation and lasting influence of this classic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Death and Life of Great American Cities\u003c\/i\u003e was described by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as \"perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. . . .  It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments.\" Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jane Jacobs's tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane Jacobs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.10w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679644330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Jacobs \u003c\/b\u003e(1916-2006) was a writer and activist who championed new approaches to urban planning for more than forty years. Her 1961 treatise, \u003ci\u003eThe Death and Life of Great American Cities, \u003c\/i\u003ebecame perhaps the most influential American text about the inner workings and failings of cities, inspiring generations of urban planners and activists. Her efforts to stop the building of downtown expressways and protect local neighborhoods invigorated community-based urban activism and helped end Parks Commissioner Robert Moses' reign of power in New York City. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJason Epstein \u003c\/b\u003eis the recipient of many awards, including the National Book Award for Distinguished Service to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle, and the Curtis Benjamin Award given by the American Association of Publishers for enriching the world of books. For many years he was editorial director of Random House. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBook Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEating\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Jane Jacobs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44969521053924,"sku":"9780679644330","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780679644330.jpg?v=1778658433"},{"product_id":"the-death-and-life-of-great-american-cities-jane-jacobs-paperback","title":"The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- Jane Jacobs, Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCompassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating and exciting study of this [great problem] which I have seen. It fairly crackles with bright honesty and common sense.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, \u003ci\u003eThe Death and Life of Great American Cities\u003c\/i\u003e has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane Jacobs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.26w x 1.22d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679741954\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2001 pg. 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJANE JACOBS was the legendary author of \u003ci\u003eThe Death and Life of Great American Cities, \u003c\/i\u003e a work that has never gone out of print and that has transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works include \u003ci\u003eThe Economy of Cities, Systems of Survival, The Nature of Economies \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Dark Age Ahead. \u003c\/i\u003e She died in 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jane Jacobs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45034566549732,"sku":"9780679741954","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780679741954.jpg?v=1777190329"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/collections\/jane-jacobs.oembed","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}